The Enquiring Classroom

A rather extensive list of videos and interviews by the world's leading thinkers on a range of topics and contemporary challenges. The content is taken from the Institute of Arts and Ideas initiative.    

Τhe IAI seeks to challenge the notion that our present accepted wisdom is the truth. It aims to uncover the flaws and limitations in our current thinking in search of alternative and better ways to hold the world.

A rather extensive list of videos and interviews by the world's leading thinkers on a range of topics and contemporary challenges. The content is taken from the Institute of Arts and Ideas initiative.    

Τhe IAI seeks to challenge the notion that our present accepted wisdom is the truth. It aims to uncover the flaws and limitations in our current thinking in search of alternative and better ways to hold the world.

"Short animated videos from BBC Radio 4, all covering the big questions: How did everything begin? What makes us human? What is love? How can I know anything at all?

A clip from the classic Spike Lee movie 'Do the right thing'. An exercise on racist stereotypes. In TEC we are addressing the issue of hate speech and how it affects classrooms. In this clip, characters are throwing racist stereotypes aiming at hurting particular ethnic groups. Lots of foul language and cursing!

Turning grandmothers into educational tools. Grandmothers and values - Grandmothers andethical dialogues - Grandmothers and attacks   

Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to Plato’s thought.

Every year around 27 January, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that may lead to group-targeted violence. The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.

There is a chronic underrepresentation in Europe of children from migrant communities that choose to pursue careers in science, technology and engineering. Consequently an enormous reservoir of untapped talent exists that could be potentially mobilised for the benefit of society. The Space Awareness Programme is therefore devoting special attention to reaching out to schoolchildren in migrant.

Use scepticism and doubts to build enquiry and focus on questions on doubt, ghosts, dreams, etc.  

A presentation on Saturnalia, the ancient Roman festival in honour of the god Saturn,

Living with Controversy Teaching Controversial Issues Through Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights (EDC/HRE) Training Pack for Teachers

This documentary short film, about a coast guard captain on a small Greek island who is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea, was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award.

For students, the film can put human faces on what can sometimes feel like an abstract or political issue, the world’s refugee crisis.

This documentary short film, about a coast guard captain on a small Greek island who is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea, was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award.

For students, the film can put human faces on what can sometimes feel like an abstract or political issue, the world’s refugee crisis.

The principles and pedagogical practices informing this conceptual framework are further elaborated in the project handbook. Here we provide the conceptual and theoretical commitments informing The Enquiring Classroom project and indicate how these have shaped the nature of the pedagogical and reflective exercises proposed in the handbook.

What is democracy? Majority rule/s?

A form of government?

A set of values?

Can one ”have” democracy?

Can a person/nation be democratic?

What distinguishes a democratic society from a non-democratic?

Join Prof. Aislinn O'Donnell and Dr. Trish Kiernan as they guide our Chester Beatty Library workshop participants through the concepts and methodologies of The Enquiring Classroom project.

The influx of more than a million refugees and migrants to the Greek islands in the past year has stirred up difficult memories for a dwindling group who followed the same route during World War Two, but in reverse. As German and Italian troops occupied Greece, tens of thousands of people fled by sea to refugee camps in the Middle East.

The most indestructible, everlasting and insurmountable Wall among us is invisible... The Invisible Wall or different ways to spend your summer on a small island. A video on the refugee problem and how it affects aspects of our lives. Strong images

Το πιο άφθαρτο, αέναο και ανυπέρβλητο τείχος ανάμεσα μας είναι αόρατο... Το Αόρατο Τείχος ή διαφορετικοί τρόποι να περάσετε το καλοκαίρι σας σε ένα μικρό νησί.

The most indestructible, everlasting and insurmountable Wall among us is invisible... The Invisible Wall or different ways to spend your summer on a small island. A video on the refugee problem and how it affects aspects of our lives. Strong images

Το πιο άφθαρτο, αέναο και ανυπέρβλητο τείχος ανάμεσα μας είναι αόρατο... Το Αόρατο Τείχος ή διαφορετικοί τρόποι να περάσετε το καλοκαίρι σας σε ένα μικρό νησί.

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.

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.

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.

Imagine you’re watching a runaway trolley barreling down the tracks, straight towards five workers. You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track. Here’s the problem: that track has a worker on it, too — but just one. What do you do? Do you sacrifice one person to save five? Eleanor Nelsen details the ethical dilemma that is the trolley problem.

Αυτή η άσκηση βασίζεται στη δουλειά της Lubaina Himid «Για ποια μνημεία;» https://vimeo.com/22938970 που προσφέρει μια ανατρεπτική ανάγνωση των μνημείων των παλιών αυτοκρατοριών κέντρων, αλλά και στην υπόθεση των «ζωντανών μνημείων» του Thomas Hirschhorn. Υπάρχουν, επίσης, αναφορές στην Doris Salcedo και στη θέση της όσον αφορά στο «right to οpacity» και στη δουλειά «περί των συνηθισμένων μουσειακών εκθεμάτων» του Christian Boltanski.

H παρουσίαση της ομάδας του EUDEC στο εργαστήρι για τη Δημοκρατία στη Σχολική Τάξη, στο πλαίσιο του Διθενούς Συνεδρίου Open Schools for Open Societies