p4c.com – This is a subscription-based website dedicated to supporting communities of enquiry in schools. Click here for more details

P4C Bookshop: recommended P4C books with direct links to the Amazon marketplace

 

Online Resources

Newswise - An excellent resource for Primary and Secondary schools featuring newspaper articles and supporting materials

P4C and YouTube - Some nice ideas for using YouTube clips for enquiry-based lessons

P4C with Picture Books - a comprehensive guide to using picture books to begin philosophy for children

CartoonWeb - download up-to-date cartoons. Great resource for enquiry in Secondary and FE

 

Recommended Resources

1. Theory Books

Thinking Together (Philosophical inquiry for the classroom)
(1995, Hale & Iremonger), Philip Cam
Possibly the best introductory text for promoting and facilitating community of enquiry, full of practical advice to build a community of enquiry and to use it to develop thinking

Children as Philosophers
(1999, Routledge-Falmer), Joanna Haynes
A practical look at how philosophical enquiry can be used with younger pupils. Full of practical suggestions

2. Story Books for Primary and Middle Schools

Collections of stories that have been specifically written or chosen as stimuli for philosophical enquiry:

Stories for Thinking
(1996, Nash Publishing), Robert Fisher

Values for Thinking
(2001, Nash Publishing), Robert Fisher

Poems for Thinking
(1997, Nash Publishing), Robert Fisher

3. Resource Books for High Schools and Colleges

Amusing and informative examples of philosophical thinking let loose on some of the issues relevant to our world today such as should we eat meat and what is right. Also includes a glossary of philosophical jargon:

The Philosophy Files
(2000, Orion Children’s), Stephen Law

The Philosophy Gym
(2004, Headline Book Publishing Ltd), Stephen Law

The Outer Limits
(2003, Orion Children’s), Stephen Law

4. Tried and Tested Picture Books

These are picture books that we have found to produce good philosophical enquiry. Most of them are easy to obtain.

The Conquerors
(2004, Andersen Press Ltd), David McKee

Egg Drop
(2003, Red Fox), Mini Grey

Elmer
(1990, Red Fox), David McKee

Fish is Fish
(1987, Demco Media), Leo Leonni

The Fish who could wish
(1993, Oxford University Press), John Bush & Korky Paul

Frog and the Birdsong
(1991, Anderson Press, London), Max Velthuijs

The Gruffalo
(1999, Macmillon Childrens Books), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

The Gruffalo’s Child
(2005, Macmillon Childrens Books), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Little Blue and Little Yellow
(1995, William Morrow), Leo Leonni

Look what I’ve got
(1996,Walker Books Ltd), Anthony Browne

Night Monkey, Day Monkey
(2002, Egmont Books Ltd), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Not Now Bernard
(1990, Red Fox), David McKee

The Rainbow Fish
(2000, North South Books), Marcus Pfister

Room on the Broom
(2004, Campball Books), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Slow Loris
(2003, Red Fox), Alexis Deacon

The Smartest Giant in Town
(2002, Macmillon Childrens Books), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

A Squash and a Squeeze
(2003, Macmillon Childrens Books), Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Something Else
(1995, Puffin Books), Kathryn Cave & Chris Riddell

The Teddy Robber
(1991, Corgi Childrens), Ian Beck

Three Monsters
(2004, Andersen Press Ltd), David McKee

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
(1997, Puffin), Jon Scieszka

Tusk Tusk
(1990, Red Fox), David McKee

Two Monsters
(1987, Red Fox), David McKee

Voices in the Park
(1999, Corgi Childrens), Anthony Browne

Where the Wild Things are
(2000, Red Fox), Maurice Sendak

Willy the Wimp
(1995, Walker Books Ltd), Anthony Browne

 

P4C Organisations

IAPC – the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children provides curriculum materials for engaging young people in philosophical inquiry and provides teacher preparation in the pedagogy of the classroom community of inquiry

SAPERE - the Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education is the charity that supports all P4C developments and training in the UK

ICPIC - the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children is the home of the international community of P4C practitioners

Childhood and Philosophy - a journal of writings by members of the international P4C community

P4C New Zealand - a very nice P4C website for teachers in New Zealand

P4C Austria: the Austrian Center of Philosophy with Children (ACPC) hosted by Dr Daniela Camhy

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