Posts tagged as:

Education

It’s taken a while, but I have finally printed out a handful of pages and figured out exactly where I am and where the members of the Skeptic Zone podcast will be at Dragon*Con… which is happening at the end of this month. Sodding hell. It’s not very far away!
First – drum roll… appearances by [...]

{ 0 comments }

Wahh, Philosophy Camp went well, with no bouncing Serval cats seen anywhere – although I have discovered that the best solution to staying awake in case of emergency is a sleeping bag. Especially when I rolled myself up in it and started to lose circulation. I did (thankfully!) remain very much awake for some excellent [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

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 [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment:
“Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

(Live-Blogging the presentation at the FAPSA conference: ‘Democracy and Philosophy Education’ by Phillip Cam – this isn’t strictly live-blogging, since I did it using a Word document on the day and only now have had the chance to post it)
An interview with Phillip Cam, an associate professor of history and philosophy at the University [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

Vale Ann Margaret Sharp – 1942-2010

by podblack on July 6, 2010

In other words, Philosophy for Children does not tell the child what to think: ultimately that is up to the child. What it does do is give children the intellectual, social and emotional tools that they need to think well, to think judiciously and reasonably and, by means of the classroom [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }