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Philosophy for Children Across the Primary Curriculum: Inspirational Themed Planning book cover

1st Edition

Philosophy for Children Across the Primary Curriculum Inspirational Themed Planning

By Alison Shorer, Katie Quinn Copyright 2023
296 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 44 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is an easy-to-use, theme-based resource book for Philosophy for Children (P4C) practitioners in primary school settings. It covers ten popular themes which include many current affair issues and enduring curriculum themes such as artificial intelligence, biodiversity, resilience, and waste. Each theme provides planning for every subject and links to the relevant English national curriculum... Read more

Foreword

Nick Chandley

Preface

  1. About the authors

  2. How to use this book

  3. Philosophy at the heart

    4. Alison Shorer

  4. The philosophical teacher

    5. Lizzie Lewis and Roger Sutcliffe

  5. Making metacognition simple

    6. Roger Sutcliffe, Bob House and Nick Chandlery

  6. Artificial intelligence

  7. Biodiversity

  8. Hearts and lungs

  9. Journeys

  10. Money

  11. Resilience

  12. Time

  13. War and peace

  14. Waste

  15. Water

Appendix A: P4C Generic Worksheets

Appendix B: Commemoration dates

Biography

Alison Shorer is a P4C facilitator (SAPERE trained) and Thinking Moves Trainer for DialogueWorks. She specialises in oracy teaching and is a co-founder of Articulacy and TalkTastic. During her career in education, she has been a primary school teacher, given oracy intervention programmes to secondary school students, been a lecturer in language and literacy, and served as a teacher trainer and mentor. Her first degree was reading philosophy, and she has a master's in education.

Katie Quinn is the ‘Philosophy for Children’ (P4C) Lead and SAPERE Trainer at a large city-centre primary school in Exeter. She has worked with senior leadership to link philosophy to the learning and behaviour values already in place, and to develop ways of systematically incorporating it into topic planning, across all year groups and all curriculum areas, from science to maths to religious education. Her first degree was also reading philosophy.

"Alison Shorer is always such an inspiration and this book is no exception to that. Absolutely packed with great ideas and resources, it shows that Philosophy for Children truly can be cross curricular, and used within a holistic approach to education, throughout primary education and beyond. For educators new to P4C up to those who have been doing it for years, this book will prove to be an essential tool. An absolute treasure trove of lessons to take you through a full year and beyond."

Dulcinea Norton-Morris, author of Beautiful Thinking: Metacognition from Birth to Five

"I really like that the cross-curricular links were shown and linked to the questions. This makes it easy for teachers to embed P4C into the curriculum."

Natalie Padley, Deputy Head Teacher, St. Martin’s Primary

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