Critical Thinking in P4C (Philosophy for Children) Educators: An Intervention Study
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 7
Abstract
One of the main issues in determining the place of a nation in the world is to train the personnel in terms of thinking and internalizing the power of knowledge. There are many methods in teachinghow to think among the children enabling them to learn philosophy of thinking process. This could enhance clarification, open-mindedness, logical thinking and the organization of mind among the children at schools. Methods could be used to raise the children as a thinking creative.This method deals with teaching stories, guidebooks, notes, and designs to children in a community of inquiry with Socratic method whichargues the issue to arrive at the critical thinking. In the present study, 30 tuteesused this philosophical method. They were selected to pass a course in which they use philosophy of critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to discover the effect of thephilosophical treatment on the educators teach children. The critical thinking pre and post questionnaires were given to the instructors through the instruments of California critical thinking Questionnaire-Version B. Results showed that the level of the instructors’ critical thinking was significantly promoted after the course(p=0.0001). Findings also showed that there was not any significant relationship between educational level, age and the critical thinking of the participants (p=0.64). Findings of the study suggest that the Socratic philosophy method could be used to train the educators who learn critical thinking in the pre-service and in-service courses to teach the preschooleducators, and school teachers.
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Somayeh Naseri, Mahmoud Reza Ebrahimi, Zahra Gorjian, Maryam Niakan
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