Full Description
This book takes the principles explained in Vol.1 and describes a complete classroom practice for conducting philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) that has been honed over nearly twenty years of classroom experience by the author and his colleagues at The Philosophy Foundation. Although the method (known here as philosophical enquiry or 'PhiE' for short) has been previously described in many earlier publications, this is by far the most thorough and comprehensive account of the method to date in one place. It includes, not only a thorough explanation of the central ideas of the method complete with current updates, but many extensions to the PhiE method including writing extensions, but most importantly, the extended thinking programme. This is an extension to the PhiE method that implements metacognitive and critical thinking strategies for the participants that has been shaped by two years of reflective research conducted by The Philosophy Foundation and King's College London.
Contents
Preface
Facilitating PhiE
PreparationPart One: Basic facilitation, getting PhiE going
Philosophical process and contentThe essential core of PhiEBasic mechanism of PhiEThe PhiE step-by-stepThink, Speak, ListenThink: the stimulusThink and Speak: questions in PhiE
Other key question-types in PhiESpeak: reasons
Listen: ListeningOther key dispositions in PhiE
Part Two: Expert facilitation, managing dialectic
If-ing, anchoring and opening-up
Further Facilitation Considerations
The Response Detector and The Third Way
Right-to-reply
Inclusionary moves
The Emergent Question Approach
Silent Dialogue
The Imaginary Disagreer: 'silent dialogue' in the classroom
The Hokey Kokey method
Arguments and hidden premises
The Mapper and PIES(S) Questions
Part Three: Advanced Facilitation, taking things further
The Sibelius Model
Writing in PhiE
Self-facilitation
Metacognition and Extended Thinking in PhiE
Thinking Tools and Thinking Wall
Metacognition in Plato and PhiE
Do you know that you know?
Meno-cognition: learning attention to ourselves
Session-plans
Session-plan 1: Epistemology through images
Magritte's Pipe
Session-plan 2: Ethics through a question
Ethical Protesting
Session-plan 3: Aesthetics through performance
The Concert
Session-plan 4: Metaphysics through texts
Stepping into rivers with Heraclitus, Cratylus and Plato
Appendix A-D: Tables of moves
Appendix E: Pieces of music for The Concert session plan
Bibliography
About the Author
