This book takes the principles explained in Vol.1 and describes a complete classroom practice for conducting philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) that has been honed over nearly twenty years of classroom experience by the author and his colleagues at The Philosophy Foundation. Although the method (known here asphilosophical enquiry or PhiE for short) has been previously described in many earlier publications, this isby far the most thorough and comprehensive account of the method to datein one place. It includes, not only a thorough explanation of the central ideas of the method complete with current updates, but many extensions to the PhiE method including writing extensions, but most importantly, theextended thinking programme. This is an extension to the PhiE method that implements metacognitive and critical thinking strategies for the participants that has been shaped by two years of reflective research conducted by The Philosophy Foundation and Kings College London.
Preface
Facilitating PhiE
Preparation
Part One: Basic facilitation, getting PhiE going
Philosophical process and contentThe essential core of PhiEBasic mechanism of PhiEThe PhiE step-by-stepThink, Speak, ListenThink: the stimulus
Think and Speak: questions in PhiE
Other key question-types in PhiE
Speak: reasons
Listen: Listening
Other key dispositions in PhiE
Part Two: Expert facilitation, managing dialectic
If-ing, anchoring and opening-up
Further Facilitation Considerations
The Response Detector and The Third Way
Right-to-reply
Inclusionary moves
The Emergent Question Approach
Silent Dialogue
The Imaginary Disagreer: silent dialogue in the classroom
The Hokey Kokey method
Arguments and hidden premises
The Mapper and PIES(S) Questions
Part Three: Advanced Facilitation, taking things further
The Sibelius Model
Writing in PhiE
Self-facilitation
Metacognition and Extended Thinking in PhiE
Thinking Tools and Thinking Wall
Metacognition in Plato and PhiE
Do you know that you know?
Meno-cognition: learning attention to ourselves
Session-plans
Session-plan 1: Epistemology through images
Magrittes Pipe
Session-plan 2: Ethics through a question
Ethical Protesting
Session-plan 3: Aesthetics through performance
The Concert
Session-plan 4: Metaphysics through texts
Stepping into rivers with Heraclitus, Cratylus and Plato
Appendix A-D: Tables of moves
Appendix E: Pieces of music for The Concert session plan
Bibliography
About the Author
