Review article
Knowledge as an important by-product of the research community
Marjan Šimenc
; Faculty of Philosophy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
Philosophy for children is a highly successful programme of teaching philosophy, the method of which is also used in other fields, particularly in teaching critical thinking, and moral and civil education. The author attempts to show that the effectiveness of the method does not issue from transferring the focus from the teacher to the student and from the student to the community alone; rather, the merits of the wide array of the advantages of this programme should primarily be ascribed to the special role of the teacher in the research community, which facilitates the establishment of a process in which knowledge itself gains the status of an important by-product.
Keywords
research community; aims of education; knowledge; relevant by-products; philosophy for children
Hrčak ID:
27853
URI
Publication date:
19.8.2008.
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