PSHE/ Personal development

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A classroom dialogue
Video of a classroom dialogue with commentary. Enquiry is ongoing. An initial dialogue around a pupils' question often consists of a collection of related thoughts. What then?
Community Dialogue, Following Up Steve Williams 17/05/2012
Piggybook by Anthony Brown
Disscussion ideas for parents and teachers.
Picture Books James Nottingham 15/05/2012
Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
Disscussion ideas for parents and teachers.
Picture Books James Nottingham 15/05/2012
'Changes' by Anthony Brown
Some ideas for parents and teachers for talking about with this popular picture book
Picture Books James Nottingham 15/05/2012
Argumentative Artifacts: Using arguments for philosophical inquiry in schools
Link to a web e-book on p4c.com about the use of created arguments as stimuli and models for p4c
E-Books Steve Williams 11/05/2012
Jeg Går En Tur - A self-portrait by Lasse Gjertsen
A stimulating three-minute video made by a student in Norway. Thought-provoking themes for discussion with teenages.
Short Films James Nottingham 03/05/2012
The Gruffalo
Ideas for using the popular story by Jane Donaldson
Picture Books James Nottingham 01/05/2012
P4C & Music
A collection of musica stimuli with some ideas for use.
Short Films, Recommended! Nick Chandley 29/04/2012
Teaching Notes for Harrison Bergeron
Ideas to support dialogue issues of equality, discrimination and freedom following a reading of Kurt Vonnegut's classic story.
Lesson Outlines Tim Sprod 09/04/2012
Mark's Dilemma
A story and ideas for discussion on the themes of race, culture and representation.
Scripts and Dialogues Darren Chetty 04/04/2012
Rose and Carrot
A set of resources for investigating a range of concepts related to gardening and growing, food production and consumption.
Scripts and Dialogues Steve Bramall 22/02/2012
Democracy
Six classroom activities with which to explore the concepts of democracy.
IAPC Materials, Notes and Activities IAPC 22/02/2012
"I got a right"
A story with comprehensive background notes and activities to explore the concepts of rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities.
Stories & Storytelling, Dialogues Tim Sprod 08/02/2012
Answers, Questions and Truth
Here are two activities with which to explore children's attitudes to questions and to ask them to consider degrees of truth in answers to a questions.
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts IAPC 03/02/2012
Good Reasons
Six exercises to introduce the notions of relevance, strength and sense with which to evaluate reasons.
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts IAPC 03/02/2012
Loneliness and friendship
A brief dialogue raising ideas about friendship and loneliness
Dialogues Jason Buckley 03/02/2012
Wondering
Two activities to stimulate young children to reflect on their wondering.
IAPC Materials, Notes and Activities IAPC 03/02/2012
Good and Bad
Exercises with which to explore the different uses of the words "Good" and "Bad".
Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 03/02/2012
Knowing and Believing
An exercise and discussion plan on these two essential and connected concepts.
Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 03/02/2012
Fair
An exercise to explore the concept of fairness
Examples, IAPC Materials IAPC 02/02/2012
Duties and rights
An exercise to explore the concepts 'right' and 'duty' and the connections between them
Notes and Activities IAPC 01/02/2012
What’s on your mind?
An illustration from an old journal of phrenology can be used to explore concepts of mind, body, science and pseudo science. Steve Bramall explains how.
P4C Library Steve Bramall 01/02/2012
Examples
An exercise on giving examples
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts IAPC 25/01/2012
Kinds of Truth
Exercises to explore 'truth by definition', 'truth from evidence', and 'the whole truth'
IAPC Materials, Notes and Activities IAPC 25/01/2012
Questions and Answers
Activities to help children think about what makes good questions and answers and how to answer them.
IAPC Materials, Reasoning Concepts IAPC 25/01/2012