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1. Pixie (novel - eBook) by Matthew Lipman
Matthew Lipman
Pixie is an elementary school student perplexed and delighted by many aspects of her experience. This novel emphasizes relationships (logical, social, familial, aesthetic, causal, part-whole, mathematical, etc.) as well as competence in dealing with such relationships. Ethical concepts include sibling-rivalry, personhood, respect for others, friendship, secrets, promise-keeping, parent-child relationships, obedience, teasing, and autonomy. Readers will find the pages of Pixie strewn with philosophical ideas and puzzles that lead to lively classroom deliberation. The text includes some blank pages for young readers to try their hand at book illustration.
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2. Pixie (novel .pdf printable) by Matthew Lipman
Matthew Lipman
Pixie is an elementary school student perplexed and delighted by many aspects of her experience. This novel emphasizes relationships (logical, social, familial, aesthetic, causal, part-whole, mathematical, etc.) as well as competence in dealing with such relationships. Ethical concepts include sibling-rivalry, personhood, respect for others, friendship, secrets, promise-keeping, parent-child relationships, obedience, teasing, and autonomy. Readers will find the pages of Pixie strewn with philosophical ideas and puzzles that lead to lively classroom deliberation. The text includes some blank pages for young readers to try their hand at book illustration.
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3. Looking for Meaning (manual) by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp
Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp
The philosophical exercises in this manual offer practice in generalization, classification, concept development, making comparisons, offering counterexamples, using analogies and contradiction. Reasoning skills are employed in writing exercises, and in enhancing students' judgment. Discussion plans help students explore philosophical concepts central to their experience, such as friendship, families, honesty and autonomy. All reasoning skills and philosophical concepts are explained in nontechnical language.
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4. Sources and References for Pixie
Matthew Lipman
This sequential bibliography matches the 1981 edition of Pixie page by page. It contains both sources—works that influenced Matthew Lipman in writing the novel, references to philosophical works he and Ann Margaret Sharp recommend to explore the novels’ philosophical themes, and brief commentary on them by Lipman.
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5. Pixie (novel; 1981 Edition)
Matthew Lipman
Pixie is an elementary school student perplexed and delighted by many aspects of her experience. This novel emphasizes relationships (logical, social, familial, aesthetic, causal, part-whole, mathematical, etc.) as well as competence in dealing with such relationships. Ethical concepts include sibling-rivalry, personhood, respect for others, friendship, secrets, promise-keeping, parent-child relationships, obedience, teasing, and autonomy. Readers will find the pages of Pixie strewn with philosophical ideas and puzzles that lead to lively classroom deliberation. The text includes some blank pages for young readers to try their hand at book illustration.
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