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ISBN
0-916834-14-X
Target Grades
Secondary School (esp. ages 14-16)
Publication Date
1980
Publisher
Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
Number of Pages
395
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Summary
The Suki program, including the instructional ~ manual Writing: How and Why, represents a new direction in the teaching of writing. The endeavor of the program is to make possible a smooth and seamless transition from reading to talking and from talking to writing. The program aims at helping children write by exploring the process of creativity in a novel with whose plot and characters children can identify. This approach also utilizes philosophical notions which children can explore in the classroom, and thereby creates a motivation to write as an extension of the desire to participate in classroom discussion.
Excerpt
DISCUSSION PLAN: Feelings
1. Which of the following words refer to feelings, and which don't?
sadness happiness calmness moodiness heaviness gracefulness toughness melancholy gentleness despair joy pleasure disgust distaste freedom wildness satisfaction dryness green hope
2. What are the most dreadful words you know? The most magnificent? The happiest? The most sincere?
3. Can you feel rich and poor at the same time?
4. Can you believe that a statement is true and that it is false at the same time?
5. Can you be both sad and happy at the same time?
6. Are there good feelings and bad feelings?
7. Are there right feelings and wrong feelings?
8. Are good feelings also right, and bad feelings wrong?
9. When your feelings change, do your thoughts change?
10. When your thoughts change, do your feelings change?
11. Are there ways you can think by which you can control what you feel?
12. Are there times when you trust your feelings more than you do your thoughts?
13. ls It possible for you and someone else to share the same feeling?
14. Can you tell how peoole feel by looking at them?
15. Can you tell how people feel by listening to them?
16. Can you tell how someone feels by reading what he has written?
17. Is it possible that you really don't know how you feel sometimes?
18. Is it possible that you may only find out how you feel by trying to express it in words?
Translations
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Spanish translation (Colombia and Spain): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (2016): Escribir, cómo y por qué. Translated and adapted by Diego Antonio Pineda R. and Ignacio Terrado Rourera. Madrid: Ediciones de la Torre.
Keywords
aesthetics, art, language, poetry, writing
Disciplines
Aesthetics | Education | Philosophy | Philosophy of Language
Recommended Citation
Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1980) Writing: How and Why, Instructional Manual to Accompany Suki. Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
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