Firstly, congratulations on daring to have fun in inquiring how the two curious creatures visit, trip over and are dumped on the shores of ten different islands. We guarantee that you and your students will share many adventures exploring how motivation and purpose shape decision-making and problem-solving. Red Wool Editions’ Why In The World Are …
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We can’t have enough conversations about what it means to create a better world. The pandemic we are currently facing requires addressing the state of the world through health, economic and psychological threats. Finding creative ways to address the everyday issues of living a good life are brought into sharp focus. However, we can feel …
From my experience, on reading the book, young people will usually ask why Clare wrote Why In The World Are We Here as a fictional atlas. They will be even confused that the records collected by two travellers, Eia and Whhat, has small insertions of the creatures interactions as they to try and figure out …
Philosophy for children (P4C) has great tools for talking with young people Back in 1969, Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp came up with a colossal insight around a philosophy for children (P4C) methodology. Their approach tapped into the fact that stories give children access to deep ways of thinking. This was especially true when …
The Young Philosophers’ Education Programme For Anxious Times Having a philosophical conversation about the state of the world is hazardous right now. As parents and teachers, we are caring for children while at the same time dealing with health, economic and psychological threats. In this anxiety-ridden context, reading and talking with our children and students …
Why In The World Are We Here? is not an ordinary children’s picture book. It is a philosophical text focused on raising questions about how values and beliefs give our lives meaning. View what the author has to say about bringing ‘philosophy and magic’ to children in the following video. Just to be clear, though, …
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Are you looking for exciting books for your 9 to 13-year-old with a wild imagination? It could be that you’ve had enough of those bland, fill-in-the-space type resources that are everywhere. Is your child less than excited about writing? The Book With No Story is an exciting young writers resource which holds 52 creatures who …
Why we support the use of journals at home and in school? Sometimes, proven methods of dealing with important issues can be taken for granted. That’s can be the case for using journals as ‘thinking tools’. So, we put together this resource to help you encourage the young people in your life to never stop …
In their guide to philosophy in schools, Matthew Lipman, Ann Sharp and Frederic Oscanyan say this: Getting students to engage in philosophical dialogue is an art. As with any art, some knowledge is a prerequisite – in this case, the teacher should possess an understanding of when it is appropriate to intervene in the discussion …
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