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Philosophy as a Tool for Ameliorating Educational Disadvantage

Philosophy as a Tool for Ameliorating Educational Disadvantage. Thomas E. Wartenberg Mount Holyoke College Victoria University Wellington. Mount Holyoke College Student Teaching Philosophy. James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

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Philosophy as a Tool for Ameliorating Educational Disadvantage

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  1. Philosophy as a Tool for Ameliorating Educational Disadvantage Thomas E. Wartenberg Mount Holyoke College Victoria University Wellington

  2. Mount Holyoke College Student Teaching Philosophy

  3. James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men • In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God... And ‘education,’ whose function is at the crisis of this appalling responsibility, does not seem to me to be all, or even anything, that it might be.... (290-91)

  4. Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

  5. Mount Holyoke Students at MLKCSE

  6. A Practice Session

  7. Introduction to Philosophy for Second Graders http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org

  8. Bravery (Ethics)

  9. Social and Political Philosophy

  10. Essential Properties (Metaphysics)

  11. Informal Logic

  12. Philosophy of Language

  13. Aesthetics(Philosophy of Art)

  14. Environmental Ethics

  15. The Chart

  16. A Sample Discussion The Giving Tree

  17. What students learn • To love books

  18. What students learn • 2. How to say what they think For videos please visit: http://www.teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5wuHRyHez0

  19. What students learn • 3. Self-Confidence

  20. What students learn • 4. Understanding Arguments A chart illustrating the results of a research project demonstrating children’s increased level of understanding arguments had to removed pending publication Walker, Wartenberg, and Winner, forthcoming

  21. What students learn • 5. Putting College onto their Radar Screen

  22. What students learn • 6. Creating Enthusiasm for Learning

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