Wonderful journey of thinking │ Baba Ocean and Phantom Star
Michael Sandel's "Justice" course is a whirlwind in the 20 10 publishing industry, and it is also a cultural phenomenon with wide influence. In recent years, more than 1000 students of Harvard University have taken this course. The live clips of this course have been widely responded by the audience in the United States and widely shared on the Internet. As for the first lecture "Justice", I looked it up on the Internet yesterday, and 8 178440 people watched it, which also announced the arrival of the online learning era of classic courses.
Inspired by Michael Sandel's class, domestic education has suddenly become the key word of search, and many books on philosophy or philosophy education have been published on the market, which has become an undercurrent of new book publishing and has continued. But how to cultivate this important critical thinking ability? Need to discuss major issues? For children, major issues are not only difficult to understand, but also too far away from the world they can accept. Therefore, reading stories that they can participate in has become an important way.
How is the story discussed? How to be understood? It is the key to reading education, but no matter how the story is laid out in the plot, the description of the situation or the profound meaning, and how the author carefully arranges it, the continuity of the story presentation form to the story itself is limited by the symbolic presentation form of words and images, while the paper and digital carriers as the main carriers cannot "unfold" the story. The "unfolding" here does not refer to unfolding and deduction, but more to the basic integration of stories, plots and characters. If these courses are important for understanding and thinking, how can we realize such learning and cultivate the ability of thinking? The most direct and effective way is to expand the story itself and the dimension of thinking through the discussion formed by questions.
Michael Sandel's "A Theory of Justice" course is not only rich in content and incisive in viewpoint, but also a series of thought-provoking questions are brilliant. These questions do not exist for a preset answer, but provide conditions for examining one's own thinking and others' thinking. The end of the question is not the answer, but the next deeper question. In the process of discussion, your thinking and confrontation, in addition to developing the multifaceted nature of the problem, has also become an important learning to broaden your horizons and self-reflection.
The importance of speculative education is not to prove that you are right, but to examine the differences between yourself and others and reflect on yourself in the process of forming learning. This is like Socrates' questioning thinking guidance, which is also designed as the basis for parents and children to discuss together in the book Babayang and the Magic Star. Through these questions, stories, characters and scenes have developed into three-dimensional and multi-faceted existence. Because of this discussion process, readers are no longer bystanders of stories, but go into stories and further become dramatists and even creators of stories.