For a child, he needs an interesting medium to help him participate in thinking. The "stimulus" in children's philosophy class is such a medium. Therefore, before class, teachers often put a picture book story, a video, a news and so on. As a "stimulus" Starting from these stories and videos, the teacher will guide the children to think, vote on the topics they are most interested in, and discuss them further.
There is often no way to preset the discussion questions in children's philosophy class in advance. Teachers can roughly judge which issues children will be interested in, but the classroom content can only be generated bit by bit with the children's discussion.
Children's philosophy class, like a thinking collision, encourages children to establish their own thinking in dialogue; In the face of doubt, we can calmly tell the reasons for different ideas, and at the same time let children learn how to ask questions, how to listen to others, how to participate in cooperation and other "soft power" in regular dialogues and activities. Free prediction and bold expression of opinions are the premise of any discussion. Similarly, in the philosophy discussion class, the philosophical and speculative nature of the discussion topic is not the most important. The key is to let children speak their inner thoughts without scruple.
The establishment of values is not to instill' what is right and what is wrong' in children, but to encourage children to rethink their existing views through philosophical dialogue with hidden values.
It is said that children are born philosophers, but sometimes in daily life, faced with many questions raised by children, parents either can't answer them or feel too naive to answer them. Remind parents that children's curiosity will soon disappear in primary school if they don't cherish these problems in early childhood. How to keep children's curiosity and enthusiasm for asking questions? As long as you master some communication skills, you can make seemingly "stupid" questions become "boosters" to exercise children's thinking.
1. Give the initiative to the children.
2. Thinking behind the problem
3. Appropriate questions and rhetorical questions
4. Friend-like parent-child communication
We firmly believe that every problem of children should be cherished, because behind these problems, more inner conditions can be revealed. In daily life, we might as well ask and question children's views in the way of children's philosophical dialogue, which is helpful for children to think more comprehensively and dialectically.
Socrates' famous saying that "an unexamined life is not worth living" still has the significance of the times today. If a child's life choices are not determined by his own thinking, will he be happy even if he tries to realize those "other people's glory and dreams"?
Children's philosophy, cultivating independent thinking, is to let children understand why they are alive and why they should strive to live a more meaningful life.