Do children need moral guidelines?
How should a facilitator respond when students express controversial opinions in Ethics? Here I share my email conversation with a friend who volunteers as a facilitator in the NSW Primary […]
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Responding to radical opinions in Ethics
A friend recently asked me a question about teaching ethics. She volunteers as a facilitator of children’s dialogue in the NSW Primary Ethics program, and her question triggered an email […]
What Philosophy is not
I was taken aback to discover an opinion piece in The New Yorker denouncing the teaching of philosophy in schools as ‘a terrible idea’. The author, Richard Brody, reflects bitterly […]
Reflections on our Sydney summer program
A resounding ‘thank you’ to the children who participated in our first Sydney summer program. What a responsive, eloquent, sociable and open-minded bunch! They fearlessly took on new intellectual challenges […]
