Example of a Philosophy Lesson

Key Principles of P4C

These are the key principles of P4C:

-Proper valuing of each person’s interests and questions.
-Acknowledgement that each person’s experience/story is unique.
-Proper valuing of knowledge, along with the recognition that no one is all knowing or all wise.
-Appreciation of different ways of interpreting and thinking.

Children's Comments on P4C

“I like it when we ask about it and when we see what stories we are looking at. I like it when you go in partners and make notes up about the film we watched.” (Hassan, year 2)
“I like we get to talk about things.” (Sandya, year 1)
“I like when we go in a circle and talk about what we want to talk about.” (Lana, year 2)
“Everything when you learn you can talk about it and it’s really fun and you get to do a game.” (Brawin, year 1)
“I like it when we do the questions because we can find out what we ask.” (Emma, year 2)
“I like that we get to share all the different stuff we think about the questions.” (Shakur, year 2)
“I think philosophy has nice stories.” (Simon, year 1)
“When we get in a circle we ask lots of questions. I like philosophy on the big whiteboard.” (Tanisha, year 2)
“It helps us to learn things. It helps us to learn about philosophy.” (Natalie, year 1)
“I enjoyed it because I got to say something.” (Pavan, year 1)
“I like it when we go in the circle and talk about the things.” (Alfie, year 2)
“It was fantastic because I talked a lot.” (Amay, year 1)
“I like it when we watch the little clips and when we write the questions and vote on them.” (Junayd, year 2)