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Tiêu đề
The Liberal Arts in Practice: The Philosophy for Children Movement Revisited
Tác giả
Zebrowski R.L.
Năm xuất bản
2020
Source title
Creative Engagements with Children: International Perspectives and Contexts
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
10.1163/9781848881273_017
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Liberal arts colleges are engaged in a constant struggle over how to support the commitments to the liberal arts they espouse as cornerstones to their approaches to pedagogy. However, few colleges have any programs they can point to as demonstrative of these somewhat vague commitments. At the same time, community engagement is often lauded as a desirable outcome of liberal arts approaches, with similarly few concrete recommendations for achieving these goals in the classroom. The ‘Philosophy for Children’ movement, begun by Matthew Lipman in the 1970s, is an ideal program for fulfilling the goals of the liberal arts in practice, as well as benefitting the college philosophy students and the students of the local schools. The latter of these benefits have been explored over the life of the movement, but the benefit of these programs to liberal arts colleges has not been sufficiently investigated. I have recently begun bringing introductory philosophy students into local classrooms to teach philosophy through children’s literature, and I have been simultaneously exploring how this program can serve the rest of the college community. This program not only teaches college students about philosophy in the real world, whilst teaching critical thinking skills to young children (both of which are well-documented at this point), but it also introduces psychological development to the college students, whilst serving to engage the students in the practice of the liberal arts. Using reflective essays written by my philosophy students for assessment of the program, I argue that the ‘philosophy for children’ projects that are still too-rare in the US have a much larger potential impact in liberal arts education than has previously been demonstrated. © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012.
Từ khóa
community engagement; experiential learning; introduction to philosophy; liberal arts; pedagogy; Philosophy; philosophy for children
Tài liệu tham khảo
Muth J.J., Zen Shorts, (2005); Seuss D., Horton Hatches the Egg, New York: Random House, (1940); Seuss D., The Lorax, (1971); Wartenberg T.E., Teaching Philosophy through Children’s Literature, (2009)
Nơi xuất bản
Brill
Hình thức xuất bản
Book chapter
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus