Philosophy for Children in the Classroom—the Research of the Teaching of Thinking Discussion with Pixie
| Autor: | Hsu Shuwei, 徐淑委 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 96 Children are gifted the ability to “do”philosophy. They talk about philosophy with their innocent instincts. Incidentally, they can start a question related to the serious concept about philosophy. The more they grow up, the less they spontaneously ask or talk about the philosophical concepts. The researcher uses Pixie as the teaching material written by Lipman. The researcher introduces Pixie into the classroom to observe how it functions among the children and hope to rebuild children’s ability to talk about philosophy. During the research period, the researcher and the children forming a community of inquiry read and discuss Pixie together. The researcher records the process of the philosophical discussion and the words children use in the discussion. Moreover, the researcher analyzes the philosophical discussion and inducts the development of the their ability and style of asking questions. This thesis consists of six chapters. The first chapter sketches the researching motivation, purpose and questions, the maintenance of the community of inquiry, the introduction of the concept and the teaching material of philosophy for children. The second chapter proposes the phenomenology and modified case method as main researching methods and explains the researching period and the personal descriptions of the researching objects. Then in the third chapter, the researcher analyzes the discussion from children reading Pixie. The fourth chapter presents the story can relieve personal emotions and help construct the value of life through reading and discuss Pixie. In the fifth chapter, the researcher collects all the questions from children’s discussions and analyzes the reason to form the question, the thinking process of the question and the classification of the questions through the method of typology of questions and questioning. The six chapter is the research result, stating the finding of this research, the difficulty of the frame teaching. At last, the researcher tries to take some suggestions under practical teaching to help teachers who devote to being engaged with the education of philosophy for children. |
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