Dear Alan, THANK YOU so much for sharing that radio show. I will be creating an affective curriculum (focusing on social and emotional learning) for elementary school students in the coming months. I was unaware of philosophical inquiry and am thrilled to explore it more. I particularly like the guidelines for conversation that are offered:
1. Listen to each other well. 2. Build on the ideas of others. 3. Show respect for each other and the ideas of others. 4. There is no single right answer. With discussion questions: Is there anybody that disagrees with that? Would somebody like to build on that? Would somebody like to clarify what they think (child's name) said? And at the end of the discussion: Inviting the group to give a thumbs up or thumbs down for how they think the PROCESS went today. Calling on students to explain why they chose up or down. Asking if anyone changed their mind today as a result of the discussion or thinks about something differently. Inviting them to expand. > There is a lesson in here about using Open Space, and other deliberative > processes: if one is not living in alignment with the work, it is just a > tool, and nowhere near as effective as it could be, One more highlight from this discussion is the mention that using this process seems to aid in facilitating a way for children to embody what they are learning. Here's a quote from the transcript: *Stephan Millett:* Some work I did a couple of years ago at Wesley showed very clearly that if you use philosophical inquiry in the classroom, you can improve their moral understanding, you can improve behaviours and interpret from those behaviours that they have changed in some sort of moral sense. All of that's got little scare quotes and caveats all over it, but the work we did was very instructive, to say that on a range of categories, particularly in terms of social responsibility, getting involved in doing stuff, kids who learn philosophical inquiry, who learn values and ethics through this model, tend to embody it much more, they live it, they act it out, because it becomes part of their cognition. Thank you, ashley * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
