Reasoning and Citizenship: The 1991 Stevenson Lectures: Lecture 4 - Couverture souple

McCall, Dr. Catherine C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1475217226 ISBN 13 : 9781475217223

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1991

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Catherine C. McCall BA (Hons) MA TEFL MSc PhD FRSA Director of EPIC , 1990 - present. The European Philosophical Inquiry Centre [EPIC] was established by Dr. McCall in 1990 in Scotland to implement Philosophy with: children, parents, business directors, artists, prison officers, community groups et al. President of Stichting SOPHIA: The European Foundation for Doing Philosophy with Children, Dr. McCall trained as a Philosopher at Trinity College and Manchester University and as a Psychologist at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology . In 1984 she pioneered the practise of philosophising with young children in the USA, and from 1985- 86 whilst a Professor in Montclair USA, she introduced Philosophy for Children to the UK, Eire, France, and Spain through a series of International Training Workshops. She was appointed as the External Expert to the Government in Values and Character Education for the Sate of New Jersey, USA 1985-86. The 1990 BBC documentary “Socrates for Six year olds” featured Dr. McCall’s Community of Philosophical Inquiry [CoPI] work with young children in the USA. In 1990 Dr. McCall created M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Philosophical Inquiry at Glasgow University. In 2005 Dr. McCall presented the CoPI method to the Scottish Parliament. She has been a Visiting Professor at: The Sorbonne; The Technical University of Barcelona; The University of South Carolina, USA; The Polish Academy of Sciences; Malta University; The Continuing Education University of Iceland; The University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Through EPIC, Dr. McCall has been a Philosophy Consultant for: IBM; Scottish Business in the Community; The Transmissions Gallery; Corton Vale Prison; Grampian Health Care Trust; Scottish Enterprise; The Lighthouse; VEFO (Belgium), The Glasgow Academy, East Renfrewshire Council. She is currently working internationally with EPIC International Consultants. http://tcd.academia.edu/CatherineMcCall/About

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Reasoning and Citizenship" is the 4th Lecture from the 1991 Stevenson Lectures in Citizenship given by Dr. Catherine C. McCall in Glasgow University. In these lectures Dr. McCall presents a new analysis of the philosophical reasoning abilities of young children and the role of philosophical reasoning in creating active citizens. Arguing that to be an active citizen in a democracy requires more than voting, Dr. McCall distinguishes between being rational and being reasonable and argues that practising reasoning creates reasonable citizens. Dr. McCall demonstrates how her Community of Philosophical Inquiry [CoPI] method develops the philosophical reasoning of children as young as five years old. Contradicting the prevailing cognitive stage maturation theories, she shows how given the right environment young children can reason with abstract ideas, engage in moral reasoning and empathise with the thinking of others. "Philosophical Inquiry with Five-Year-Olds" Oct 24th 1991 "Communities of Inquiry" Oct 31st 1991 "Is it Rational to be Reasonable?" Nov 7th 1991

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1475217226
• ISBN 13: 9781475217223
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28