New Token Skeptic podcast out! It should keep you amused while I get back to finishing everything else that needs to be done during the last week of the school holidays. Pass it onto anyone interested in finding out just how difficult it is to get new programs started in schools and how the media can quite easily misinterpret efforts.
That was one thing I took away with me from this interview – how people seem to think it’s about ‘anti-Scripture education‘ when it is in fact more akin to: ‘allow for all students to have access to education rather than situations where some do nothing while others attend Scripture – and wouldn’t it be great if this could be given to all students, including those attending the Scripture classes?‘
Dr Philip Cam is Associate Professor in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. He has particular interests in the philosophy of the mind, education, social philosophy and philosophical inquiry for children. Dr Cam has written several books related to philosophical inquiry for children, some of which have been widely translated, and he is the author of many articles on related aspects of education.
In 2004, I attended a Level 2 training course in Philosophy for Children, with about fifteen other teachers, attending lectures and workshops run by practitioners, including Dr Cam. At the FAPSA conference, he did a short presentation about the state’s 10-week trial for secular ethics classes, which has caught some media attention – so I hoped to clear up a few misconceptions about the trial and whether it was, as some claimed, really ‘in competition’ with religious education classes.
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