I hope you'll share some of yr thoughts, and I'll work on my "civil" tongue. :-)
diane
>At 3:56 AM 12/11/97, Nicole Vincent wrote:
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>>, my interest in P4C starts at
>>Lipman's use of "the Socratic method" as the basis for P4C.
>>
><snip>
>>Anyway, I feel that the methods used in P4C do suffer greatly from some of
>>the material such as "Harry Stotlemeier" which, as you put it, seems to be a
>>little Socrates in disguise who asks questions that he already knows the
>>answers to :-) But this is precisely why I'd like to integrate Vygotsky's
>>sociocultural approach more thoroughly and tie it in to P4C. The whole idea
>>of a Community of Inquiry, the role of dialogue in learning, and so forth
>>reeks to me amazingly of the zone of proximal development, the dialogic
>>structure of individual thought (discussed by Fernyough and many others as
>>well I guess), and of Vygotsky in general. By applying Vygotsky's approach
>>in a systematic matter to P4C, I think it should actually be possible to make
>>better use of P4C, and maybe even to convince educators around the globe to
>>take it more seriously than just as "another lesson" to be part of an
>>existing indoctrinatory curriculum (just my opinion), which is how P4C is
>>currently being treated in the few Australian schools which have given it a
>>try.
>
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani Difranco
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