This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can help promote critical thinking as well as the moral and social values essential for citizenship in a democratic society. It also shows how a community of enquiry can be created in any classroom, enriching learning across the whole curriculum.
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“A welcomed resource and a useful tool, Teaching Thinking is especially commended to the attention of classroom teachers at the secondary school and collegiate levels of instruction.” —Library Bookwatch
"Author Robert Fisher (Professor of Education at Brunel University) offers an easily accessible wealth of ideas to facilitate philosophical discussion, to present contexts for moral education, to improve the quality of critical thinking, and more. A welcomed resource and a useful tool, Teaching Thinking is especially commended to the attention of classroom teachers at the secondary school and collegiate levels of instruction." -Library Bookwatch, Jan. 2004 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Author Robert Fisher (Professor of Education at Brunel University) offers an easily accessible wealth of ideas to facilitate philosophical discussion, to present contexts for moral education, to improve the quality of critical thinking, and more. A welcomed resource and a useful tool, Teaching Thinking is especially commended to the attention of classroom teachers at the secondary school and collegiate levels of instruction." -Library Bookwatch, Jan. 2004 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A welcomed resource and a useful tool,
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Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Teaching Thinking is a guide to using classroom discussion to promote student learning and literacy. Author Robert Fisher (Professor of Education at Brunel University) offers an easily accessible wealth of ideas to facilitate philosophical discussion, to present contexts for moral education, to improving the quality of critical thinking, and more. A welcomed resource and a useful tool, Teaching Thinking is especially commended to the attention of classroom teachers at the secondary school and collegiate levels of instruction.
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Children are never too young to think and have, and express, their own opinion in many situations.
Check other books by Robert Fisher, they won't let you down.
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