P4C Craft
How to orchestrate philosophical inquiry
Our p4c-craft area is a collection of practical ideas on all aspects of orchestrating philosophical inquiry such as: preparing materials, helping pupils create questions, pushing for depth in dialogue and planning for progression. These tried-and-tested ideas will not only give you food for thought as you plan your p4c classes and curricula, they will also help you to make your p4c teaching more varied and effective.
For a brief overview of the practice of p4c, read our guidance notes for teachers in the public area. We ill be adding more key documents in the near future to provide a some common approaches to the structuring of p4c sessions with pupils.
The p4c-craft resources on this page are organised in a simple table. If you use the sub-menus in the left column, you will be able to filter the list according to the resource category. Sort any table in this section using the column headings.
| Title | Category | Author | Created |
|---|---|---|---|
| A question checklist A checklist for helping children to create, choose and prepare questions for philosophical dialogue | Choosing Questions | Steve Williams | 04/10/2009 - 20:10 |
| Community of Enquiry Framework A simple framework for those beginning to use communities of enquiry | Getting Started | Nick Chandley | 29/09/2009 - 15:45 |
| Ideas for writing Ideas to get children writing. The writing easily into inquiry. | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 26/09/2009 - 19:22 |
| Writing and thinking booklet for pupils A booklet to encourage children to care for their thoughts through writing. | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 26/09/2009 - 19:07 |
| Would you dare?: a nursery question board activity An activity to get young children to consider generalisations and 'if ... then' situations. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 24/05/2009 - 20:54 |
| Voting cards for opinions in the early years The following routine helps young children to keep opinions consistent and link reasons with opinions | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 04/05/2009 - 08:59 |
| Same and different: a nursery question board activity. This activity gets children using the concepts of 'same' and 'different' to make connections. | P4C Craft | Sara Stanley | 04/05/2009 - 08:22 |
| A P4C Inquiry Planner A useful framework to help you plan and assess your p4c sessions. | Getting Started | Steve Bramall | 08/03/2009 - 13:44 |
| What do we think about philosophy? An easy-to-use resource for stimulating thinking about the experience of doing philosophy | Evaluation | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 - 16:37 |
| What can I do about disruptive behaviour? Strategies you can use when the behaviour of some pupils gives you problems. | P4C FAQ | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 - 16:24 |
| Creating rules for dialogue A great ways to establish rules for dialogue with children -- make them a topic of inquiry. Useful suggestions and materials. | Getting Started | Steve Bramall | 06/03/2009 - 13:05 |
| Conceptlines A good way to explore concepts, explained with reference to the concept of freedom. This is an fuller explanation of one method of stretching concepts mentioned in the concept-stretcher key download. | Activity Structures | Karin Murris | 15/02/2009 - 20:39 |
| Rhymes about asking and telling A couple of rhymes to ecnourage children to share thoughts and questions and to understand 'questions' and statements' | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 04/02/2009 - 15:44 |
| Michelle Whitworth's tips for using stimuli Tips for different ways of presenting and using a wide variety variety of stimulus material for p4c | Getting Started | Michelle Whitworth | 03/02/2009 - 22:09 |
| Making an Evilometer A concept stretcher, warm up activity or stimulus for a p4c session | Getting Started | Jason Buckley | 03/02/2009 - 14:18 |
| Using pupil-devised questionnaires to stimulate p4c Creating and analysing questionnares can be a useful stimulus for philosophical questioning. Samples and advice are provided. | Getting Started | Robyn Spencer | 26/11/2008 - 21:16 |
| Theming ideas from 'The Last Noo-Noo' by Jill Murphy An extract from a session using 'The Last Noo-Noo' by Jill Murphy. Pupils had been thinking philosophically for six months in their first year at school. | Choosing Questions | Sara Stanley | 26/11/2008 - 16:51 |
| Goodies and baddies in the nursery A recorded dialogue to show how young children use, through play, their knowledge and understanding of fairy tale characters and how their conversation can help me to develop their thinking. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 26/11/2008 - 13:19 |
| You Choose: involving parents in p4c The item describes a way to involve the parents of very young children in the critical and creative thinking of p4c. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 22/10/2008 - 09:20 |
| Evaluation form for community of inquiry A form for formative or summative evaluation of 20 dispositions/skills that are at the heart of community of inquiry practice. | Evaluation | Roger Sutcliffe | 11/10/2008 - 14:42 |
| A nursery question board Introducing the philosophical skill of making a choice and giving a reason with children in nursery. | Getting Started | Sara Stanley | 08/10/2008 - 18:13 |
| The believing and doubting game A game, or activity, to develop critical thinking in group dialogue, reading and writing | Community Dialogue | Steve Williams | 07/09/2008 - 13:41 |
| Mysteries A 'mystery' is an activity to develop exploratory thinking, often about causes or consequences. | Activity Structures | Steve Williams | 06/09/2008 - 21:41 |
| The benefits of using written dialogues Benefits of choosing a written dialogue as a stimulus and of having pupils write dialogues | Getting Started | Steve Williams | 06/09/2008 - 19:50 |
| Question walk | Activity Structures | Steve Williams | 23/08/2008 - 16:02 |