Original scientific paper

Play – A Way into Multidimensional Thinking. Aiming Philosophy for Children

Bruno Ćurko ; Institute for Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Kragić ; Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

Johan Huizinga, in his book Homo ludens, claims that civilization arises and develops through play and as a play. Playing is a characteristic of humans, a human ritual and yet it is for recreation, fun, but also for learning. Can it be then that well-directed play leads to a development of human thinking? The aim of philosophy for children programme is practising multidimensional thinking. According to Mathew Lipman, multidimensional thinking is the entirety consisted of critical, creative and caring thinking. Philosophy for children programme is directed towards pre-school as well as towards elementary-school population. For that reason this programme considers play as an inevitable way into the development of multidimensional thinking. In this paper we will also present a few games which are being used in philosophy for children programme, and which are also directed towards practising intellectual abilities.

Keywords

play; homo ludens; philosophy for children; multidimensional thinking; little philosophy programme

Hrčak ID:

41409

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/41409

Publication date:

21.7.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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