Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
From the NY Times: Tan’s work overflows with human warmth and childlike wonder. But it also makes a perfect adult bedtime story, a little something to shake loose your imagination from the moors of reality right before your own dreams kick in. If you have a look through my Skeptical Books for Children series, you [...]
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I know that there’s perhaps a few people who aren’t aware of the work going on in Australia to encourage philosophy and critical thinking for the younger age groups. In fact, considering the work that’s going on with P4C in over sixty countries, it’s kind of funny how many people still ask about ‘what’s going [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One; Part Two and Part Three and a segue into gender and literacy with Mind The Gap, as related to the theme of reading strategies. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children — Part One and Skeptical Books for Children — Part Two. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from the start if you’re new to the series of posts. I’d like to untypically begin with [...]
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Sometimes it just seems it never really ends? Two items of news sent to me by readers today (hello to that persistent reader in Queensland!) – a psychic apologises and kids get into ghostbusting. First – guess who is not-so psychic when it comes to telling everyone who’s on your email list? … Damn that [...]
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Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One My comment that “we have to stop trying so hard to fill a niche and fill a general need first” is what I’ll expand upon – in particular for the pre-primary and primary year students. I’d like to first acknowledge the problems that some parents [...]
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At least twice a year, some well-meaning person announces on a message board, forum board, email discussion or just during a conversation at a conference that they’re planning on putting together a book for kids that will tout the skeptical message. I’ve been involved with the initial stages of one myself; it’s a bold adventure, [...]
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