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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Sue Wilks.
Prerequisite: 25.0 credit points of Philosophy A subjects, or approved equivalent.
Contact: A 3-hour seminar each week, except during block periods of School Experience.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- facilitate the gaining of reasoning skills via conducting classroom work centered around philosophical issues;
- understand and implement strategies for teaching and learning reasoning skills; and
- model a "community of enquiry" approach in the development of responsible thinking and reasoning.
Content:
Through the development of an enquiry approach with its co-operative dialogue, a range of effective thinking and reasoning strategies can be developed. Theories and strategies behind the systematic development of desired skills in a variety of classroom contexts.
Assessment:
Participation in class sessions; satisfactory presentation of workshop activities of approximately one hour (20 per cent); a unit of work of approximately 2,000 words which could be used to facilitate the acquisition of thinking and reasoning skills in classrooms (40 per cent); an essay of approximately 2,000 words (40 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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