Thursday, 22 October 2015

What happen in our minds when we come up with a question?


When you become a parent, your world changes totally.  This sentence seems to be a cliché but, at least in my case, that is true! ..

The most special thing that I've  re-discovered as  a mother  is 'the question'. The question as a source of  knowledge. Matthew Lipman  developed an interesting programme called: Philosophy for children. Through stories, drawings, games and so on, he tries to arouse  their innate capacity to know about the world, but how does he do it? Simply, through  the construction in community of a special kind of dialogue. At the beginning, he makes questions to provoke a dialogue, then his questions become increasily more complex, so that these questions stimulate different capacities like: reasoning, deduction, induction, transference and so on.  Then when children have internalized  that dynamic (it happens almost immediately), they would be the ones who generate the dialogue into  the comunity of investigation.  The result is  significant learning.

I would like to share with you an interesting map. That is only an example of how  a teacher or whatever person could develop a gripping dialogue. Also, I've though that if you want, you could put in some questions in each dimension.





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