1st Global Conference

 

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Friday 10th September - Sunday 12th September 2004
Mansfield College, Oxford

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

Session 5: Workshop
Chair: Megan Laverty

College Students as Philosophic Facilitators
Thomas Wartenberg
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

In my talk, I want to describe to you what I think is an underused and undertheorized means of having philosophical discussions with elementary school children. From what I can tell, there are two main forms that efforts to teach philosophy to children takes. The first involves a philosopher leading a philosophical discussion with children. The second focuses on elementary school teachers and involves specialized training in philosophy for children. The alternative model I want to put forward is using college students as philosophic facilitators in elementary schools.