Teaching Thinking
Höfundur:
Robert Fisher (Útgáfa: 4)
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This fully updated fourth edition of the highly successful guide, Teaching Thinking, explores how to use discussion in the classroom to develop children's thinking, learning and literacy skills. This new edition includes material on the latest trends in teaching thinking, including philosophy for children, dialogic teaching and education for citizenship. The book will help readers from different cultural traditions to critically engage with teaching thinking in schools and other educational contexts.
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- Bloomsbury UK
- 9781780937502
- 9781780936796
- ePub
- 4
- Robert Fisher
- English
- 2013-10-10
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Thinking about thinking
- Why teach thinking?
- What are thinking skills?
- Teaching for thinking
- What is wrong with our thinking? Some common faults
- What kinds of thinking should be taught?
- Why philosophy for children?
- 2 Philosophy for Children
- What is the Philosophy for Children programme?
- How is Philosophy for Children taught?
- A Philosophy for Children session
- Concept development
- A philosophical discussion: ‘Is your brain the same as your mind?’
- What kinds of thinking does Philosophy for Children develop?
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Caring thinking: The expression of empathy
- Thinking and reasoning in classroom discussion
- 3 Community of enquiry
- What is a community?
- How does a community of enquiry differ from any other community?
- How is a community of enquiry created in the classroom?
- How does a community of enquiry contribute to moral education?
- What does it mean to be moral?
- Moral development
- Moral attitudes
- How are moral and social values to be taught?
- Education for democracy
- Evaluating progress in a community of enquiry
- Society and beyond
- Dialogical learning
- 4 Stories for thinking
- Why use stories?
- What problems do stories pose?
- What stories to use? – Stories and texts for philosophical enquiry
- Inviting children’s questions
- Leading a discussion
- 5 Dialogic teaching and learning
- Kinds of talk
- Dialogue and Socratic teaching
- What is Socratic teaching?
- How does Socratic teaching differ from traditional teaching?
- What is Socratic enquiry?
- Philosophy for Children and Socratic dialogue
- What is Socratic questioning?
- How do we facilitate Socratic discussion?
- 6 Philosophy in schools
- Restorative discipline
- Rights-Respecting Schools
- Learning to think and learn
- Creating a community of enquiry in the classroom
- 7 Thinking for life
- Philosophy across the curriculum
- Developing habits of intelligent behaviour
- English: Language and literature
- Mathematics
- Science
- History
- Geography
- Art
- Music
- Physical education (PE) and sport
- Religious education and spirituality
- Citizenship
- A democratic community develops
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Questions and topics for thinking with children
- Appendix 2: Thinking words: A curriculum of concepts
- Appendix 3: A checklist of dialogic skills
- Appendix 4: How do we assess progress in dialogue?
- Appendix 5: Evaluating a discussion: Some questions for students
- Bibliography
- Index