Questionnaire: Martian Anthropologists Investigating Schools on Earth
Please help us carry out our research. We find schools very confusing and we don’t really understand how they work or what they are for. There are so many bells, timetables, sitting up, hands up, screaming in playgrounds but not in classrooms. If you can make further suggestions or can add questions to our survey, that would also help us. Please add diagrams to explain schools to us.
We are committed to bringing philosophy to the wider community, and in particular philosophy in schools.
Our aim is to make 'Reasoning' the 4th 'R' in education - by giving children the tools to help them think critically, creatively, cohesively and autonomously we aim to fill the gaps in education and consequently benefit society as a whole.
Philosophy can help to shape the way we think and live in the world. Learning to think clearly and creatively helps in many ways - the most obvious being the effect it has upon one's actions.
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The R4C SIM describes a framework that facilitates the transformation of schools to Digitally Mature Open Schooling Hubs. The project Reflecting for Change (R4C) is working on an advanced support framework, as well as a set of core policy recommendations, to schools seeking to introduce a type of holistic change that will ensure a meaningful uptake of sustainable innovation, with an emphasis on achieving improved learning outcomes as set by the Europe 2020 strategy.
Thinking Space promotes dialogue and enquiry. We work in schools and communities, creating space for people to talk and think together. Through their involvement in the Creative Partnerships scheme, Rodillian wanted to understand better how PLTS and Learning to Learn programmes could be embedded in a Year 7 curriculum through project based work in the Humanities and Performing Arts. Extensive consultation and discussion between Creative Partnerships, key members of the SLT and Governors resulted in a radical initiative to transform Year 7 curriculum.
‘Philosophy: a school of freedom’ – a striking title that alone could sum up the essence of the present work. This is the title chosen for this UNESCO study of the present state of the teaching of philosophy in the world, a study fully in keeping with UNESCO’s Intersectoral Strategy on Philosophy as adopted by the Executive Board of the UNESCO in April 2005.
Addressing values and ethical dilemmas in schools: Scenario and game-based approaches with concrete examples. Content has been created by the Centre for Ethics at the University of Tartu in Estonia. It has been adapted for the RAYUELA H2020 project on cybersafety and was presented at the Open Schooling Classroom 2021 in Greece.
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The Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership "We are all digital natives” stands for a new way of thinking about education and lifelong learning. In Europe, learners need to know how to act and live with digital reality. Younger users need to achieve digital responsibility. Older learners and workers need to be introduced to and made proficient in the navigation of the digital world in order to qualify them for jobs needed today. The biggest challenge to become and stay a “digital native” is faced by teachers and trainers in all education sectors, in formal and non-formal education.
Throughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it’s probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus.