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Programmes and activities for pre-school and primary school
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9788859031468
Publication date: 01/05/2023
Suitable for: Nursery 1st Level (ages 3-4), Nursery 2nd Level (ages 4-5), Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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Doing philosophy outdoors helps children learn to observe and interpret nature, the landscape and themselves actively and with greater awareness. The book offers 34 outdoor educational activities designed to invite children to “do” philosophy outdoors, to “lean beyond” what they already know, or think they know, to relate to hypotheses and intuitions never thought of before. The activities are grouped into four sections: thoughts to explore, observation techniques, educating about the landscape in the landscape, creativity exercises. Each activity is supplemented by bibliographic suggestions, ideas for further study and advice for activating collaborative networks within the school and in the territory.
Introduction
THOUGHTS TO EXPLORE
1 “Nature loves to hide” (Eraclito)
2 “Nothing is too much” (Solone)
3 “Take the important things to heart” (Solone)
4 “Nothing remains” and “Everything passes” (Eraclito)
5 “What does not benefit the hive does not benefit the bee either” (Marco Aurelio)
6 The book of nature is “written in the language of mathematics” (Galileo)
7 Interpreting aphorisms outdoors
OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES
8 Micro and macro
9 Speed up and slow down time
10 The map is not the territory
11 The art of walking
12 The parts of animals
13 The behaviour of animals
14 Measurable and not measurable
15 Islands of biodiversity
16 The art of classifying
17 The wonder room
EDUCATING ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE IN THE LANDSCAPE
18 Landscapes and emotions
19 Landscapes in words
20 Reading landscapes
21 Signs of the past
22 The clues of the future
23 Evaluating landscapes
24 Designing landscapes (better or ideal)
25 The 2030 Agenda in the landscape
26 Debates on landscape
27 From books to landscapes
CREATIVITY EXERCISES
28 Artfully retouched landscapes
29 The space of the imagination
30 The search for beauty
31 Colour Variations
32 Free and themed combinations
33 Inventing games
34 Albums to use and reinvent
Bibliography
Programmes and activities for pre-school and primary school
“ Philosophy and outdoor education turn the landscape into a space of discovery in which you read yourself and the world ”
For children, being outside the school building means above all moving freely, running, exploring and playing. The new volume Outdoor education with philosophy offers activities to do outdoors to allow children to practice, to observe and interpret nature, the landscape and themselves in an active way and with greater awareness. Designing outdoor educational activities requires imagining situations capable of fostering reflective relationships with the surrounding environment, with oneself and with others, in a more articulated and more complex way than children would be capable of spontaneously.
Structure of the book
The experiences from which the book originates suggest that philosophical conversation and outdoor education can feed each other, transforming the landscape around the school into an extraordinary space of discovery in which to practice getting to know oneself and the world.
Why and in what sense does philosophy have to do with it? Philosophy has something to do with it because it gives voice and impulse to the reflexive relationship of human beings with nature and with themselves and because, intertwined from the very beginning with other fields of knowledge and human creativity (from literature to science, from history to art), and fueled by the emotion of "wonder", it can inspire questions, doubts and hypotheses that cross the traditional disciplinary boundaries.34 outdoor educational activities
The book offers 34 outdoor educational activities, divided into 4 macro areas and designed to invite children to "learn beyond" what they already know (or think to know) to relate hypotheses and intuitions never thought of before:
Thoughts to explore 7 activities suggest questions about forms and transformations of nature and the world around us, looking at the visible with new eyes and going in search of the invisible
Observation techniques 10 activities propose to explore the landscape with a critical eye, learning to decipher its signs, stories and hidden possibilities “between the lines”
Learning about the landscape in the landscape 10 activities remind us how to live in nature with respect, nurturing the sense of limits and sensitivity to connections, so lacking in our species and so essential for the challenges of the 2030 Agenda
Creativity exercises 7 activities help to recognize the innumerable connections between art, nature and landscapes, stimulating individual and group creativity
The chapters have a recurring structure:
the idea to start: here is the starting point of each activity, with the fundamental questions from which to set up the philosophical conversations and research to be done outdoors
outdoor activities: descriptions of the activities to be proposed outdoors
how to document: suggestions on how the proposed activities could be documented
collaboration: suggestions for involving families or other stakeholders in the community (libraries, museums, associations, etc.) in the activities
connections: connections with topics traditionally studied in school or with other chapters of the book, with cues to accompany conversations and to reflect on what is being done in multiple directions
other sources: indications of other sources (books, picture books, websites, etc.) that could be consulted to deepen and expand the proposed activities
Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHOR
Luca Mori has a research doctorate in Philosophical Disciplines and is a History of Philosophy lecturer at the University of Pisa. He has been designing and conducting philosophy workshops with children and adolescents for years. Among his projects is a journey of over 10,000 km throughout Italy to propose the mental experiment of utopia to children between 5 and 11 years of age. He collaborates with the Collegio San Carlo Foundation and the Municipality of Modena, with TSMSTEP (School for the government of the territory and the landscape of the Autonomous Province of Trento) and with schools in various Italian regions and European countries.
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