This week, as most readers are on holiday, a link to a great podcast series for children about philosophy. It’s Short and Curly from the Australian Broadcasting Network, one of my favourite media outlets:
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Their Harry Potter episode explores an interesting question in the context of Severus Snape – Do you have to be nice to be good? The two concepts tend to get conflated, but there are people who have shown great moral courage and self-sacrifice who are nonetheless rather unpleasant in their personal and professional relations.
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Each of their episodes will give you great ideas for use in the classroom.
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Best wishes,
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Jason
PS. If like me, you generally prefer music by dead people, ABC’s Classic is a great station you can listen to online. Better than the UK’s Classic FM, and no adverts! https://www.abc.net.