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Activities for lower secondary school students
After the success of Philosophical Riddles: Thinking challenges for courageous children, BELMA Special Prize Winner for 2019 (Best European Learning Materials Awards), a new volume of inspiring philosophical riddles is here for lower secondary school!
Philosophical Challenges: Activities for lower secondary school students offers 10 challenges inspired by classical thinkers and literature, through which students aged 11 and up can challenge themselves and recognize themselves in the daily challenges that they face:
OBJECTIVES
Practicing a philosophical outlook on the world, and on oneself, starting in adolescence can help children not only to think better, but also to live with greater awareness of one’s own possibilities and limits. Philosophical Challenges intends to make children aware of different ideas and useful tools for reflecting on themselves and their own experiences. Especially if addressed in class, through group conversations, the proposed questions will allow the students to increase their ability to express themselves, think, make assumptions, make connections and process conflicts together with others.
STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
Each chapter of the book proposes the following sequence of six sections:
Opening page
Introduction of the initial mystery, in the form of a question, a mental experiment, a simulation, or a situation “at the limit of reality”, which serves to get their thinking started.
Documents
The document that we have from the past, for better understanding the mystery.
Questions
A series of questions studied to help the reader to set up the “investigation” and “ponder” different aspects of the proposed problem.
The students’ point of view
Allows the reader to access an enlarged and “virtual” group of peers through pages that collect the thoughts of girls and boys from all over Italy.
The philosopher’s point of view
Offers the ideas of some classic philosophers.
Have you ever thought of…?
Help to find significant connections between the mystery and the information learned at school.
Each chapter concludes with three empty pages reserved for the notes and creative thoughts of the reader:
INTENDED AUDIENCE
The book is intended to be read independently by girls and boys aged 11 and over. The book is also suitable for use by 6th grade lower secondary school teachers looking for ideas to involve the classes in unusual and exciting conversations, from which they can also introduce the great questions of history, politics, geography, art, literature, science and other disciplines.
Leaf through Chapter 1, which has been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHOR
Luca Mori has a research doctorate in Philosophical Disciplines and he is a History of Philosophy 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.
Take a look at the other books on philosophy with young children by Luca Mori
