Looking for Meaning (manual) by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp

Authors

Matthew Lipman, Montclair State University
Ann Margaret Sharp, Montclair State University

Files

ISBN

0-8191-3829-0

Publication Date

1982

Publisher

The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

Number of Pages

390

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Summary

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.

Excerpt

Looking for Meaning, Chapter 7, episode 1, p. 234

DISCUSSION PLAN: Freedom

1. What do you think Pixie means when she yells, "We're free!"?
2. Are we free when there is no one over us to tell us how to live?
3. Are we free when we have to make up our own rules instead of having them already made for us?
4. Are Pixie and Miranda free when their parents go away?
5. Are we free when nothing stops us from doing what we want to do?
6. Are we free if no one prevents us from hurting ourselves?
7. Would we be free if there were no laws to prevent other people from hurting us?
8. Would we be free if the laws applied only to some people and not to everyone?
9. If you were the only person in the world, could you live without rules?
10. Can a large number of people live together in the world without rules?

Editions

Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1982) Looking for Meaning: Instructional Manual to Accompany Pixie. Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

Translations

• Arabic translation (Israel): Translated by سلمان الأمير عامر (Salman Elamir Amir). Jerusalem, Israel: The Israeli Centre of Philosophy for Children and Self-Remaking.

• Catalan translation (Spain): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1990) Buscant el sentit: manual d'instruccions per acompanyar el Pimi. Translated and adapted by Josep-Maria Terricabras. Girona, Spain: Eumo Editorial, Universitat de Girona. ISBN 9788476026960. Available online here: PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4.

• Chinese translation (PRC): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1997) 寻找意义: 《思思》的教师辅导用书 [Looking for Meaning: "Si Si” Teacher Manual]. Translated by 李尚武 (Li Shangwu). 太原: 山西教育出版社 [Tai yuan: Shan xi jiao yu chu ban she].

• French translation (Belgium): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (2021) Pixie: Recherche de sens [novel and manual]. Translated by Nicole Decostre; preface by Marcel Voisin. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-2-8076-0851-1

• French translation (Quebec, Canada): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1994) A la recherche du sens: guide d'accompagnement de Pixie. Translated by Arséne Richard. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada: L'Association québécoise de Philosophie pour enfants. ISBN 9782921755009

• German translation (Austria): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1986) Das geheimnisvolle Wesen. Handbuch zu Pixie / Handbuch für Eltern und Lehrende, 2. Auflage. [The mysterious being. Handbook for parents and teachers, 2nd Edition]. Edited and translated by Daniela Camhy. Sankt Augustin, Germany: Academia Verlag.

• Italian translation (Italy): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (2000) Pixie. Manuale. Alla ricerca dei significati. Translated and adapted by Antonio Cosentino. Naples, Italy: Liguori Editore. ISBN 9788820729639

• Korean translation (ROK): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1999) 혼이의 비밀 교사용 지도서 의미의 탐색 [Honyi's Secret Teacher's Guide]. (Translator not indicated.) 서울시 : 한국철학교육 아카데미 출판부 [Seoul, Republic of Korea: Korean Academy of Philosophy Education Press.

• Persian translation (Iran): Lipman, Matthew (1386/2007) Pixie and its instructional manual Looking for Meaning. Translated by قائدی، یحیی [Qaedi, Yahya]; حسین نژاد، غلام رضا [Hossein Nejad, Gholam Reza]; قضاوی، فاطمه [Qazawi, Fatemeh]. مطالعات برنامه درسی (تهران) [Curriculum studies (Tehran)] 7: 151-171.

• Portuguese translation (Brazil): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1994) Em busca do significado. (Pimpa: manual do professor). [Need translator.] São Paulo: Difusão de Educação e Cultura.

• Portuguese (Brazil): (1990) Pensando em voz alta com Pimpa [Thinking out loud with Pimpa]. Trans. Lorieri, Marcos Antonio and Neyde Barreira; illus. Regina Rennó. Sao Paulo, BR: Editora Interação.

• Spanish translation (Spain): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1989): En busca del senti­do. Manual para acompañar a Pixie. [Need translator.] Madrid, Spain: Ediciones de la Torre. ISBN 9788486587673

• Ukrainian translation (Ukraine): Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (2002) У пошуках значення” Методичний посібник для вчителів до підручника “Руся” [Looking for Meaning: Methodical manual for teachers to the textbook "Russia"]. Translated by Т.Б. Крижановська [T.B. Kryzhanovska], Н.В. Іваненко [N.V Ivanenko], Т.В. Воробйова [T.V. Vorobyova], and Т.В. Желтогонова [Т.В. Zheltogonova]. Edited by Ю.Ф. Скляниченко [Y.F. Sklyanychenko]. Kirovograd, UA: Кіровоградський державний педагогічний університет імені Володимира Винниченка [Kirovograd Volodymyr Vynnychenko State Pedagogical University].

Disciplines

Education | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

Academic Research on the Pixie Curriculum

• Lipman, Matthew (1982) Sessions with Pixie in P.S. 87: A Classroom Log. Analytic Teaching 3(1): 19-25.

• Berrian, Annette (1984) Pixie: Classroom Discussions Following Exercises in the Pixie Manual. Analytic Teaching 5(1): 18-21.

• Martens, Ekkehard (1984) Pixie for Fourth Graders. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 5(3): 15-18.

• Burdette, Pat (1985) Pixie: Looking for Meaning and the Third Grade. Analytic Teaching 6(1): 31-33.

• Lamb, Brain (1986) False Trees and Missing Teeth. Analytic Teaching 6(2): 34 [Student Papers].

• Riordan, Terry (1986) Simple and Complex Ideas. Analytic Teaching 6(2): 50 [Student Papers].

• Martin Elrod, Peggy (1986) Pixie: A New Experience. Analytic Teaching 7(1): 33-35 [Student Papers].

• Stephens, Carol (1985) A Third Grade Experiment with Pixie. Analytic Teaching 7(1): 39-41 [Student Papers].

• Tweddale, Marilyn (1986) Pixie in Everyman. Analytic Teaching 7(1): 42-44 [Student Papers].

• Schleifer, Michael, Pierre Lubuis and Anita Caron (1987) The Effect of the Pixie Program on Logical and Moral Reasoning. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 7(2): 12-16.

• Keele Martin, Cinda (1988) A Report on Pixie, Analytic Teaching 9(1): 52-62.

• Lipman, Matthew (1988) Preparing Teachers to Teach for Thinking. Ch. 12 of Philosophy Goes to School, 151-59 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press).

• Meyer, John J. (1989) A Quest of the Possible? Evaluation of the Impact of the Pixie Programme on 8-10 Year Olds. Analytic Teaching 9(2): 63-75.

• Velasco, Monica (1989) Brian! You are Talking. Analytic Teaching 10(1): 10-14.

• English, Lyn and Karen McIntosh (1991) Now it's My Turn: Andrew's Encounter with the Pixie Program. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 9(4): 37-38.

• Lindop, Clive (1993) Pixie, Metaphor and Aboriginal Education.Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 10(4): 6-14.

• Turgeon, Wendy (1994) Pixie Problems: A Methodology Check. Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 12(1): 18-l9.

• Lindop, Clive (1995) Thought and Talk: Some Reflections from Pixie, Chapter 2. Analytic Teaching 16(1): 1-3.

• Sharp, Ann Margaret and Ronald F. Reed (Eds.) (1996) Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie. Madrid, ES: Ediciones de La Torre.

Archival Materials Related to the Pixie Curriculum

• “Spine” of philosophical issues and skills

• Lipman, Matthew (1996) Sources and References for Pixie. In Ann Margaret Sharp and Ronald F. Reed (Eds.) Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie, 316-404. Madrid, ES: Ediciones de La Torre.

Recommended Citation

Lipman, Matthew and Sharp, Ann Margaret (1982) Looking for Meaning: Instructional Manual to Accompany Pixie. Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children. URL https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_primary_schl_curriculum/2.