Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
P4C with young children
1. P4C in with 3 – 6 year olds
www.p4c.com www.challenginglearning.com
2. The aim of a thinking
skills programme
such as P4C is not to
turn children into
philosophers but to
help them become
more thoughtful,
more reflective, more
considerate and
more reason-able
individuals
P4C – Created by Matthew Lipman
5. Typical format for P4C (with Reception onwards)
1. Sit in a circle
2. Warm-up game
3. Story (or other stimulus)
4. Identify the concepts
5. Create (philosophical) questions
6. Vote for the best (or favourite) question
7. Share first thoughts
8. Ask for reasons
9. Check for understanding
10. Create cognitive conflict around the concept
11. Compare the concept with other concepts
12. Draw conclusions
10. What P4C does 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
community of inquiry,
foster the care,
commitment and courage
to act on their thinking.
P4C with young children – A M Sharp
11. P4C programme by Lipman
Elfie (5 – 7) General Reasoning and Enquiry
Kio and Gus (5 – 10) Exploring Nature
Pixie (5 – 10) General Reasoning and Enquiry
Harry (9 – 12) General Reasoning and Enquiry
Lisa (12 – 15) Ethical
Suki (13 – 16) Expression, Writing, Poetry
Mark (14 – 17) Sociological
12.
13. One way to summarise P4C …
Not all of our questions
answered …
… but all of our answers
questioned
14. Facts and Concepts
Fact Paris is the
capital of France
Concept (Capital) cities
Knowledge
Understanding
15. Example question starters
What is …
How do we know what is …
What if …
Always or never
When would …
What is the difference between …
Is it possible to …
Who decides what is …
Should we …
16. If A = B then
Does B = A?
Friend Play with
Play with Friend
For example …
Wobblers (If A = B)
17. If I wear
this hat, I
am Bob
I’m not Bob if
I just have a
name badge
Cognitive conflict is key to critical thinking
19. Standing up game
Repeat what
someone else said
Paraphrase what
someone else said
Add to what
someone else said
Creating a Community of Inquiry
From www.p4c.com
P4C Craft
20. “It is utterly false and
cruelly arbitrary to put
all the play and learning
into childhood, all the
work into middle age,
and all the regrets into
old age”
Margaret Mead
(anthropologist)
The story of the Pig of Happiness has been scanned into a separate PPT. So, if it’s possible to create a link here that will start up another PPT (just put in a dummy PPT for now) to save me than having to come out of this PPT and going into another PPT, then that would be great.