Contents

Contents : Preface and acknowledgements; introduction; Thinking: the classroom as a community of inquiry (reasonableness, thinking, strengthening of judgement, thinking for oneself, concerns about the community of inquiry, problem solving, metacognition and co-operative learning); The dynamics of the inquiring community (talking - the role of language in self-awareness, from conversation to dialogue, thinking and talking, the place of dialogue in the curriculum, dialogue and life, silence and dialogue, Questioning as a stimulus to inquiry - OrQs, InQs and RheQs, in defence of RheQs, closed and open questions, procedural and substantive questions); The making of meaning (the value of experience, deceptive security of experience, schooling must respect experience - activities unconnected to experience are meaningless, construction of meaning - an educational imperative, schooling, unconnected and meaningless for many, moving beyond the deceptive security of experience); Thinking, philosophy and philosophy for children (thinking, quest for meaning, conversation as dialogue, open questions, creative thinking, value-laden thinking, place of stories, extending, using standard literature, across the curriculum, intellectual liberation of children, philosophers, teachers and the curriculum); The practice of philosophy in the classroom (reasoning and inquiry, concept formation, meaning-making, issue of closure, teacher intervention, inquiry, evaluation and assessment, priorities, around the world); Personal development and ethical inquiry (basis for ethical growth - awareness of ourselves and others, becoming a person, self-esteem development, ethical education - procedure and substance, balanced perspective, development of character, dilemma of ethical education, personal, beyond the classroom); Ethical inquiry in the classroom (cultivation of friendship, sexuality, peace and violence - moral code, gender, sexism, discrimination, matters of life and death - HIV / AIDS education, drugs and substance abuse, strengthening of judgement, environmental ethics - scope, response, pre-empting environmental conclusions, reciprocity, community and the environment); Philosophy for children and the global community (freedom, global community of inquiry); bibliography;