Overview

Contains one hundred ideas on how to develop children's thinking skills in the primary school. Fred takes large themes such as thinking about the world in which the child lives and suggests ways in which the teacher can help the child to think purposefully and creatively about them.

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Author:   Fred Sedgwick
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.142kg
ISBN:  

9781847061522

ISBN 10:   1847061524
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   10 March 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction A whole-school approach The National Curriculum A wider view of philosophy Note Part One Thinking ourselves 1 Eve in her garden: a baby 2 Watch Eve (and Adam) 3 ‘The Nothing that's in my head' 4 What do they mean? 5 Eavesdropping 6 Our thinking 7 The word ‘skills' 8 Think 9 Do ‘they' want us to think? 10 ‘Acts of violence in Grosvenor Square' 11 Seven intelligences 12 Lies 13 The purpose of education 14 Thinking about individual children 15 Notebooks 16 Games Part Two Thinking in the classroom 17 Ground rules for talking 18 A map of a mind 19 The box 20 I am a pop-singer 21 Sharing thoughts 22 ‘The inmost part' 23 ‘And it was still hot!' 24 Empirical and rational 25 The precious five 26 In the silence 27 Until it hurts 28 Snapshots 29 Change 30 Change goes on ... 31 ... and on ... 32 Animals 33 Sophie's World 34 More from Sophie's World 35 Taste 36 ‘Quiet in the valley' 37 Thinking about the world again 38 Noticing things 39 Noticing things in town 40 Rationalism 41 Palindromes 42 Isograms 43 Anagrams 44 Thinking 45 I love ... 46 ‘You are the safety net' 47 Thinking about death: animals 48 Remembering 49 Hannah and Granddad 50 Where is Granddad now? 51 ‘I felt lost' 52 Brain-showering 53 Suppose that ... 54 ‘The only teacher except torture' 55 A modern picture 56 A Victorian picture 57 A local gallery 58 Thinking about buildings 59 Homes 60 Listening to music 61 Uses for ... 62 Thinking about history: what if ... 63 Thinking about geography 64 Thinking about science 65 A science experiment in the nursery 66 Thinking about PE: before the lesson 67 Thinking about PE: during the lesson 68 Thinking about games 69 Philosophical questions: being lovers of knowledge 70 Extending our love of knowledge 71 More philosophical questions 72 Philosophical questions: write them down 73 A philosophical assembly 74 The elements: a famous person 75 The elements: read it out 76 The elements: someone not famous 77 The elements: an animal 78 The elements: me 79 ‘What is truth?' 80 Wood and bone on flesh 81 Violence: is it ever right? 82 ‘There's a fight on the playground today' 83 ‘I screamed at my mummy': anger and the very young 84 Anger: telling it 85 A ghostly light 86 Knowing and believing 87 Word tennis 88 Anti-word tennis 89 Thinking about prejudice 90 Wonder 91 Salty words 92 A family of languages 93 Starry words 94 In my bungalow shampooing my hair while wearing my pyjamas 95 ‘To every thing' 96 My head 97 Pax vobiscum - peace be with you 98 Sophie's World again 99 Wanting things 100 The good life Answers to anagrams

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Fred Sedgwick is a poet, former headteacher and author of many books in the areas of literature, expressive arts, education and creativity.  

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