1975 Philosophy for Children Demonstration Video
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In the summer of 1975 a demonstration class in philosophy for children was conducted at Montclair State College as part of a workshop for teachers. One group of 14- and 15-year-old students was bused in every morning from the New Ark School in Newark, a privately-operated, alternative school. The other group, of 11- and 12-year-olds, was drawn from the Montclair-Clifton area. The class was facilitated by Geraldine “Gerry” Dawson McClendon, a teacher at the Morton Street School in Newark, New Jersey who had participated in the first philosophy for children teacher education workshop conducted by the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) in the previous school year. After two weeks of being on display for the workshop attendees, the young people began to express discontent with the arrangement, so the class was moved to an isolated classroom and videotaped for the benefit of the workshop participants. The recording posted here, of the twelfth and final class session on July 7, 1975, is the first video recording of a philosophy for children session and was used in subsequent IAPC workshops. McClendon facilitated the discussion using questions from two exercises on “Differences of Degree and Differences of Kind” from Chapter Seven of the draft edition of Philosophical Inquiry: Instructional Manual to AccompanyHarry Stottlemeier’s Discovery (Lipman, Sharp, and Oscanyan 1984, attached here). A transcription of the discussion with annotation by Miriam Minkowitz was published in the first issue of Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children (Minkowitz 1979, attached here).
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Publication Date
1975
Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
City
Montclair
Keywords
philosophy for children, community of inquiry, differences of degree and kind
Disciplines
Education | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, "1975 Philosophy for Children Demonstration Video" (1975). IAPC Demonstration Videos. 1.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_demo_videos/1