following philosophy with children concepts in practice of teacher education

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  • arie kizel Faculty of Education University of Haifa Israel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2019.44574

Keywords:

philosophy with children, teacher education, pedagogy of reflection and dialogue

Abstract

Teacher-student dialogue plays a central role in facilitating the ongoing growth of those engaged in education, particularly dialogue that invites student reflection on the instruction being given and the teacher herself. Dialogue should aid students in articulating self-awareness (conscious or unconscious) regarding their behaviour and learning habits and the learning process and its results at the same time as assessing their quality and the ways in which they may be improved. One of the reasons behind our increasing inability to break down the inherent barrier between teachers and students is due to a lack of engagement in ongoing dialogical reflection as a means of advancing the teaching-learning process within the school. This article summarizes the philosophical concepts of a ten years of teacher education program which was designed according to the principals of Philosophy with Children. The program fostered creativity and self-reflective thinking in schools and in teacher education and offered dialogical methods. It is based also on six dimensions that are the basis of Philosophy with Children: learning from a place of questions, community of learning that resists the educational hierarchy that boasts of omniscience, coordinator as a participant in the learning process, learning in the real present, legitimization of improvisation as a way of learning , learning as liberating the learner from disciplinary boundaries. All six dimensions view Philosophy with Children as a pedagogy of searching at whose center lies the pursuit of meaning that facilitates personal development—and thus self-direction and capability.

Author Biography

arie kizel, Faculty of Education University of Haifa Israel

Arie Kizel, PhD, Head of Program for development of Educational Systems at the Dept. of Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education Faculty of Education University of Haifa, Haifa,  Israel

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2019-12-30

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kizel, arie. (2019). following philosophy with children concepts in practice of teacher education. Childhood & Philosophy, 15, 01–21. https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2019.44574

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