Philosophy for Children http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shea0017/p4c/ en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:49:58 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Some directions for the final project I have prepared a handout summarizing ideas in the class so far and suggesting some books for the final project. It is available here: Download file

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shea0017/p4c/2009/01/some_directions_for_the_final.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shea0017/p4c/2009/01/some_directions_for_the_final.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:49:58 +0000 About the Teacher Here is a short piece I did for a foreign journal about my history with philosophy for children: Download file

Here's a longer piece that relates my work with philosophy for children to some other interests:
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This paper was given at the North American Association for the Community of Inquiry conference in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, June 2008. It explores connections between philosophy for children and residential education: Download file

The residential education part of my teaching is pretty well documented at this address http://www.philosophycamp.org

I have a couple of active blogs, Philosophy and Philosophy in Movies and Television

Samples of my recent work in video production can be found here http://www.ias.umn.edu/media/BatofMinerva.php

The website for my current show on regional channel 6 in the Twin Cities is at this address http://www.batofminerva.org/

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