This week, a super session created by my colleague Charlie Sturgeon for our 6-8 yrs Philosophy Explorers at ww.p4he.org, but which will work with older children. The Explorers are travelling the galaxy. They describe the physical appearance of the planet they are visiting and we improvise a philosophical scenario inspired by it. This planet was a […]
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This week, hot on the heels of Halloween, a stimulus about spooky fiction from Grace Lockrobin of www.thinkingspace.org.uk who is one of our team at www.p4he.org We used it our online classes this week. It shows a film audience reacting to a scary movie, Paranormal Activity 2. There’s a certain amount of tension even in watching them tense up!
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This week, a tool to quickly create questions on any philosophically interesting concept. The example attached is on “freedom”. Just do a “search and replace” to swap in your own concept, and you’ll have 16 questions to choose from either ready-to-use or needing minimal editing. Try it now by reading these, replacing “freedom/free” with “friendship/friend” or beauty/beautiful, fairness, knowledge… Conceptual – meaning – What
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