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Training and support

The p4c.com website offers a great deal of support but we also offer training. All the members of the p4c.com co-operative are experienced teachers and trainers. We offer accredited training in philosophy for children in the UK and overseas. To find out more, please contact Helen Richards.

In the UK we can provide courses to individual schools, clusters of schools, or a groups of individuals who are able to organise a venue.

If you simply want to attend a course on your own, then SAPERE (Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education) organises 'open' courses for individuals in London and Oxford and they have details of courses run by by P4C trainers in other parts of the country on their website.

Many countries around the world have a national body responsible for supporting p4c, many of which are listed below. In the UK, for example, this is SAPERE (Society for the Advancement of Philosopical Enquiry and Reflection in Education). To see a full list, visit the IAPC (Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children)

Accredited courses
The co-directors of p4c.com, together with many of our contributors offer a full range of accredited courses in philosophy for children. These include 12-hour introductory courses (Level 1), to 24-hour coaching (Level 2) and 36-hour trainer courses (Level 3). For full details, contact Helen Richards.

Bespoke training
We can arrange bespoke training sessions, tailored specifically for individual institutions, clusters or local authorities. This can include demonstration lessons, training days (either accredited courses or awareness-raising days), teacher-coaching, support with planning, and online support.

The format of the training can be varied between a keynote or workshop (at national or international conferences), whole-staff training day(s), half-day or twilight sessions and/or a parent/community workshops.

Links can be made with special interest areas such as citizenship, creativity, critical thinking, drama, early years, English, gifted and talented, primary/secondary frameworks or indeed most school subject areas.

National organisations
UK - SAPERE

Resources

P4C.COM is building up an extensive collection of resources to help with all aspects of p4c. Visit our join page and find out how you can become a member. Visit our ['samples'] (http://p4c.com/sample-resources) page to see what p4c.com has to offer

In addition, we recommend the following links and books about p4c as introductory texts:

  • History of p4c
  • Teacher's guide
  • Benefits of p4c
  • Phil Cam (1995) Thinking Together: Philosophical Enquiry for the Classroom Hale and Iremonger
  • Steve Williams and Rupert Wegerif (2006) Radical Encouragement: Creating Cultures for Learning, Imaginative Minds Ltd
  • Karin Murris and Joanna Haynes (2000) Storywise: Thinking Through Stories, DialogueWorks
  • Sara Stanley with Steve Bowkett (2004) But Why: Developing philosophical thinking in the classroom, Network Continuum
  • Sara Stanley (2006) Creating Enquiry Minds, Pocket Pal
  • Phil Cam (2006) 20 Thinking Tools, ACER