The results are in: learning philosophy in the classroom leads to sustained better results in other subjects, as well as leading to long-term school social cohesion ...

Over two thousand years ago in ancient Greece, Aristotle established the Peripatetic ("conversations while walking") School in a multi-purpose gymnasium surrounded by acres of green open space. The ...

Typical! You wait for one radio or TV production on philosophy in schools, and then two come along together. As pupils traipse back to class for the new term, there is a timely reminder of what ...

In the Year 6 classroom at Stanmore Public School in Sydney, the teacher, Dan Smith, is always right. Well, nearly always. Because once a week when the students move all the chairs into a big circle ...

In this article I report one phase of a longitudinal research study associated with a selected group of second-career beginning teachers. Grounded in the perspectives of personal practical knowledge ...