Peter Ellerton

Breaking news at end of this blog-post! ***** As I write this, it’s the afternoon on the day that the Year 12 students in Western Australia do the first Philosophy and Ethics end-of-year exam. I’m hoping to get a copy of that exam after it has been completed by students today and will blog a [...]

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Adelaide! Zippy Post!

by podblack on October 12, 2008

QUICK update, Richard just yelled we have to head to the conference hall – Peter Ellerton won the Critical Thinker of the Year award for the Aust Skeptics – check out his site that I’ve been pimping for a while at PACTISS.org and his interview at Philosophers Zone – 5 May 2007 – Philosophy in [...]

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Teaching Critical Thinking? Head To PACTISS.org!

by podblack on August 7, 2008

More recently I’ve become intrigued with how well groups who tout ‘support for critical thinking’ actually get around to producing resources, links… and which ones actually have extensive classroom experience in education and training, especially with teens and children. There’s a lot of ‘cheerleading‘ and a lot of great ‘future plans to do x and [...]

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