Children’s philosophy and teaching philosophy to children

Teaching Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

When I was actively taking classes as an undergraduate, one of my biggest concerns was that project courses typically lacked a fundamentally challenging problem; the challenge was typically in learning the details of tools used to solve some problem with an obvious solution, but not in finding a unique solution to the problem itself. My personal approach attempts to remedy this deficiency, sinc...

Designing a model of curriculum for teaching philosophy to preschool children (3 to 5 years old)

The present study was conducted to design a philosophy curriculum model for preschool children aged 3 to 5 years based on nine elements of Klein. To achieve this goal, has been used synthesis method in pattern design. The scope of research was documents in the field of philosophy for children which by purposive sampling 50 articles (25 Persian articles and 25 Latin articles) was selected. The p...

How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy

 Carlo Cellucci has rightly pointed out that contemporary professional academic philosophy has a serious problem of irrelevance. Performance philosophy and public philosophy are two recent attempts to solve that problem and radically transform professional academic philosophy into what I call real philosophy. Nevertheless, performance philosophy and public philosophy have some prima facie probl...

Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Cultures are most fully expressed in and made conscious of themselves in their ritual and theatrical performances...A performance is a dialectic of “flow,” that is, spontaneous movement in which action and awareness are one, and “reflexivity,” in which the central meanings, values, and goals of a culture are seen “in action,” as they shape and explain behavior. We will know each other better by...