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What is philosophy for or with children

Philosophy with Children/Communities as P4C-philosophy for chilren/community in the literature
being expressed. The number 4 in between is P4C's critical-critical,
features titled creative-creative, caring-attentive, collaborative-collaboration
describe.




Philosophy with Children/Communities, bringing children together
It is an act of deep thinking that he does with a community he has created. This action is called 'philosophical
We call it 'investigation'. The tools called stimulus used for this are the story,
It can be a short video or some images. But mostly storytelling is preferred.
being made.




How is the Application?




5-15 people of the same or similar age
group of children together with a trainer or teacher, which we call a facilitator.
forms a circle. The facilitator initiates the investigation with the stimulus (by reading a story).
initiates and suggests that there may be a philosophical discussion during the story reading.
He stops where he thinks and asks the children various open-ended questions.




Children express their own thoughts, but
must be justified. Thinking about the reasons for their answers
Children trying to express themselves are now in an act of thinking.




Does the application only involve analytical thinking?




Because they are a group, they have more than one same or different
each child will listen attentively to the other and give his or her own opinion.
or revise his opinion. At different times during the investigation or
living in the end by practicing how his thinking has changed.
children show their reactions to this situation they have experienced.
behaviors and in a learning process in terms of ethical universal values.
they will be. So guys opposite
they understand that the view is more reasonable and that their own view is inaccurate or incomplete
they will also learn to reach the maturity to accept this in a situation.




In this sense, philosophy with children or communities,
not only an act of thinking through logical reasoning, but also
It also includes a values ​​education practice.




How did it come about?




Inventor of philosophy with children, American philosophy
Professor Matthew Lipman. Towards the end of the 1960s, in a school
During the conversation, the children gave the same or patterned answers to each other.
and observed that they were inadequate in asking questions and questioning. That's why traditional
In addition to the academic information loading in the education system, how the information is
with the idea that it should also be taught to process; Socrates' cause-effect relationship
decide that the application of reasoning technique is an effective method.
has given. Later with German scientist Ann Margaret Sharp
The application was started by developing the technique.









gains?




Scientists; time in their practice
in children's cognitive and affective domains;




critical thinking, creative thinking, logical reasoning
execution, distinguishing between logical and illogical, self-expression, language
using effectively, self-confidence, accepting fair criticism, attentive listening and
attentiveness, etc. find that there has been a significant improvement in
they have done.




Widespread in many countries around the world since the 1970s
philosophy for children, integrated into education in more than 60 countries
It has been recognized as an “excellent method for civic education” by UNESCO.
status was accepted.