This week a short guide to the three must-have ingredients for a good stimulus — whether that’s in P4C, or just to promote any kind of classroom discussion: conflict, plausibility and incompleteness, with links to stimuli that demonstrate their importance. Conflict A stimulus needs to present conflicting ideas about a concept or question. These can […]
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This week, a session that went especially well with a Year 2 class at Jason’s annual visit to Stivichall school a few weeks ago. It’s an application of “Sides Then Selves”, getting the class to first argue from two given points of view, and then to switch to deciding what they themselves think. It’s one
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In this final bulletin of 2024, a chance to reflect with your students on 2024 with the philosophical theme of numbers and measurements. It’s inspired by getting someone else’s bulletin which was a kind of mini-impact report of what they’d achieved that year. We’ll briefly do a similar thing below to provide a worked example
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