The Philosophy Club

Collaborative philosophical enquiry with children and young people

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • About
    • About us
    • Why students need philosophy
    • The benefits of philosophical enquiry
    • Curriculum connections
      • Student assessment
    • Testimonials
      • Teachers speak
      • Students speak
      • Parents speak
  • Teacher training
    • Overview
    • Introduction to Philosophical Enquiry PD program
    • Ethical Capability seminar
    • Tailored professional learning services
    • Participant feedback
  • Student workshops
    • Inclusive school programs (Melbourne)
    • Select Entry enrichment program (Melbourne)
    • Extra-curricular workshops
    • Sample workshop topics
    • Media coverage
  • Philosopher-in-Residence
  • Resources
  • blog
  • Contact

Tag Archives: critique

Doing without Socrates

August 11, 2019by Michelle 1 Comment

The Socratic method, when used correctly, is an ingenious and dependable way of fostering collaborative dialogic argument in the classroom. Yet the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) presents […]

Read Article →

Is philosophy dead?

November 20, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

You might have noticed: having a dig at philosophy seems to have become a sport among high profile scientists. Stephen Hawking famously declared: “philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept […]

Read Article →

Beyond parallel play: Three keys to dialogic argument

November 12, 2018by Michelle 2 Comments

In honour of World Philosophy Day, I’m capping off my series on relativism and evaluativism today. If you haven’t read my previous posts in the series – Epistemology Needs to […]

Read Article →

Tolerance gone rogue: More troubles with relativism

September 18, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

“I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it. But different people feel different ways, so I couldn’t speak on behalf of anyone else as to what’s […]

Read Article →

Dying goats and flying dogs: Troubles with relativism

August 13, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

Tweens and teens, however strong and resilient they may be as individuals, are collectively a vulnerable bunch. We hear a lot about how they’re susceptible to social exclusion, peer pressure, mental […]

Read Article →

NAPLAN persuasive writing test subverts critical thinking

May 2, 2018by Michelle 1 Comment

The capacity to persuade is a vital currency: it fosters active civic participation and affords access to power in a democracy. Developing persuasiveness therefore has an important place in education. […]

Read Article →

A cheap shot?

April 22, 2017by Michelle 3 Comments

The New Yorker has disappointed me again, this time by its recent coverage of a series of children’s philosophy workshops at the Brooklyn Public Library. Rebecca Mead’s article, ‘When Kids […]

Read Article →
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Tripping over logic

March 1, 2014by Michelle 6 Comments

Interested in a quirky picture book for grown-ups? Take a look at An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi, with woodcut-style illustrations by Alejandro Giraldo. In a bold […]

Read Article →

Can you kill a goat by staring at it?

October 15, 2013by Michelle Leave a comment

This year’s $1 million TED Prize was awarded to a novel educational project that encourages small groups of children to work together, using the internet to answer big questions that […]

Read Article →

Post navigation

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR newsletter

VISIT US ON
facebook

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Search this site

ENQUIRE NOW

STUDENT WORKSHOPS

TEACHER TRAINING

Tags

argumentation art citizenship climate crisis collaborative learning creative thinking critical thinking critique curiosity debate deliberation democracy dialogic argument dialogue education educational disadvantage educational reform epistemological levels ethics General Capabilities George Soros Gonski 2.0 holiday programs inquiry learning intellectual virtues kindergarten life literacy meaning moral education multiculturalism NAPLAN New Yorker persuasive writing philosophy for children philosophy in schools preschool pseudo-argument public good public reasoning questioning reasoning relativism school programs self-correction social cognition social impact Socratic method TED Prize The Guardian tolerance truth workshops

The Philosophy Club respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners of the Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we are located.

Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel