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Tag Archives: intellectual virtues

Straighten up and fly right: Making dialogue work

December 11, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

Does dialogue work to harmonise conflicting views, or does it simply entrench differences? According to extensive research in the psychology of polarised opinion, the answer is discouraging: when people of […]

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What are we doing here?

September 20, 2018by Michelle Leave a comment

(Or, how to be inimitable) We’re a motley crew, we Philosophy in Schools people. Our goals are so varied, it can be hard to say exactly what it is that […]

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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 […]

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Teaching as a Subversive Activity Redux (Part 1)

April 27, 2013by Michelle 2 Comments

I’ve been reading Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s 1969 manifesto calling for a revolution in education. Over the past half-century, many of its radical proposals […]

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Boot camp for intellectual virtues?

April 8, 2013by Michelle 2 Comments

On the lookout for new ways to help kids improve their thinking, I came across the Intellectual Virtues & Education Project (IVEP). And the more I learnt about it, the […]

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