Book Resources to support P4C
Dr Phillip Cam...
Twenty Thinking Tools (Phillip Cam, 2006)Twenty Thinking Tools is designed to support the development of collaborative inquiry-based teaching and learning through class discussion and small group work. It introduces teachers to the theory and practice of collaborative inquiry, and provides an easy-to-follow guide to the tools that students will acquire as they learn to examine issues and explore ideas.
https://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/product/0864315015 Thinking Stories (Phillip Cam, 1993, 1997)The first two books in this series contain a collection of illustrated stories from all over the world including the USA, Scotland, Germany, Canada, Taiwan and Australia.
Each story has been chosen for its ability to promote children's natural curiosity about issues such as friendship, multiculturalism, magic and make-believe, order in nature, and freedom and rights. The third book contains seven interconnected stories set in an urban Australian community. Illustrated and told in an easy-to-read style using a child narrator as the 'voice' of each incident, these stories explore issues such as friendship, racism, violence, justice, truth and lies, trust and respect. Each book has a teacher's resource and activity book full of discussion plans and exercises to help create a 'community of inquiry' in the classroom. https://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/group/MF/21 | Philosophy with Young Children (Phillip Cam, 2007)Philosophy with Young Children - a classroom handbook is a handbook for teachers of early primary. The handbook is designed to assist teachers in the teaching of philosophy, and in developing skills of inquiry and reasoning in their students, utilising story books.
http://www.acsa.edu.au/pages/page32.asp Thinking Together (Phillip Cam, 1998)Thinking Together shows how story-based material can be used to help children raise philosophical puzzles and problems that will set them thinking. It shows how to build a community of inquiry in the classroom, and how to use questioning techniques, group discussion and other activities to develop thinking skills and concepts that can be applied across the curriculum.
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