Teaching For Better Thinking

The Classroom Community of Inquiry

Author(s): Laurance J Splitter & Ann Margaret Sharp

Publisher: ACER, 1995

Provides a detailed description of what the discipline of philosophy offers to children and teachers. Building on the intimate connection between thinking and philosophy, the central theme is that when the classroom is transformed into a ‘community of philosophical inquiry’ children develop the ability to think in ways which are more reflective, more judicious and more reasonable.

Teaching for Better Thinking is aimed primarily at teachers, teacher educators and others involved in school level education, but will also appeal to parents, youth workers, religious leaders and academics.