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Philosophy for Children New Zealand
Whether it is friendship or time-travel, what's right or what's real, philosophy deals with so many things that children love to discuss.
Set these ideas and concerns in stories and novels written for children. Add to this procedures of classroom inquiry based upon the philosophical tools of reasoning and imaginative exploration. Top it off with a facilitator whose role it is to develop and challenge the students thinking.
Here we have a starting point for philosophy for children.
Developed some twenty years ago by Dr Matthew Lipman, a philosophy professor at Montclair State College in New Jersey, Philosophy for Children is an international education programme taught widely in many countries.
The aims of the Philosophy for Children Association of New Zealand (P4CNZ)are as follows:
- to promote the programme to schools and other appropriate organisations New Zealand wide
- to provide quality training and back up service to schools and other organisations interested in the programme
- to research the benefits Philosophy for Children has on teaching and learning
