Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery (Year 4 - Year 7)

HARRY STOTTLEMEIER'S DISCOVERY An upper primary/junior secondary school curriculum which focuses on the development of basic logic and reasoning skills within the context of ordinary language.

Its central characters develop their own community of inquiry, bringing together different perspectives and ways of thinking. Harry raises philosophical questions likely to be of interest to young adolescents in ethics: for example Should we always follow the majority?, aesthetics: for example What makes something beautiful?, metaphysics: for example, Are dreams real?, and epistemology: for example:Can I really know what another person is thinking?.

Harry deals with the criteria and principles which underlie good thinking in all subject areas and disciplines. Teacher Manual to accompany this novel is Philosophical Inquiry.

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