Want to find out more about Philosophy in Education?
'Children as Philosophers' by Joanna Haynes
'Teaching Thinking' by Robert Fisher
And for more info and resources check out these links...
These picture books are wonderful for provoking dialogue
Not Now Bernard by David McKee
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Grass is Greener by Jez Alborough
Piggybook by Anthony Browne
Where are you on The Philosophy Ship? Where would you like to be? (image by Steve Bramall)
And just for fun - a paradoxical teaser
Are you smart enough?
Your teacher anounces she is going to give your class a surprise exam - and tells you it could be any day next week.
But you're smart. You figure you can't get a surprise exam on Friday. Why? Because if it was to be Friday, you'd know about it by end of school Thursday. Geddit? If you get to Thursday afternoon with no exam, an exam Friday couldn't surprise you - by then it'd be no surprise at all, it'd be a certainty!
You're so smug you're tempted to tell her, you've reasoned it out, you really can't have a surprise exam next friday, but for now you keep it to yourself.
Later, you reason some more. If it can't be Friday, it can't be Thursday either. Once Friday is ruled out, if you get to the end of school Wednesday without an exam, you know it has to be on Thursday, again no chance of a surprise.
This is getting good - there's only three days left that the surprise exam can be on. And when you reason some more, you realise, if it can't be Friday or Thursday, it can't be Wednesday either, and if it can't be Wednesday it can't be Tuesday, or Monday...
So which do you trust - your reason or your observation?