This edited volume promotes the capacity for critical thinking and judgement in primary school-aged children in the face of the challenges that schools encounter in today’s society.
Foregrounding critical thinking and judgement as essential capacities for children to develop, each chapter offers a space for reflection on the formation of the ability to think and judge in primary school. While presenting a robust conceptual and foundational framework, chapters focus on the educational-didactic practices deemed most authoritative due to their impact on, and their innovative qualities within, the educational landscape today. Themes affecting schools in both the global north and south are discussed, such as social relationships, children’s voices, life skills and digital education, well-being and health, as well as matters of social plurality, inequalities and discrimination, ecology, global economy and the decolonising of education from various international perspectives.
Foregrounding real-world experience within the education system, this book will be of relevance to researchers, scholars and post-graduates in the fields of philosophy of education, moral education and child development. It will also be of interest to pre- and in-service primary education practitioners.
This edited volume promotes the capacity for critical thinking and judgment in primary school-aged children in the face of the challenges that schools encounter in today’s society.
Introduction Part 1: Reasons for Working on the Promotion of Thinking
and Judgement Capacity in Primary School
1. Critical Thinking in Early Years
of Education. From the Idea of School to the Shapes of Thinking
2. Creativity
as a Pedagogical Premise of Critical Thinking and Judgement
3. Critical
Judgement in Primary School: Roots, Shapes and New Pedagogical Perspectives
4. Teaching Constitutional Principles to Shape Democratically Aware Children
5. Reciprocal Maieutics and Conscientisation, Danilo Dolcis Ecopedagogy Part
2: Fields of Promotion of Thinking and Judgement Capacity in Primary School
6. Building Community: The Role of Third Cultural Spaces in Community
Educational Agreements
7. Homo Digitalis? The New Challenges for the
Development of Critical Thinking and Judgement Capacity
8. The Web as a New
Space for Social Relationships. Risks and Opportunities
9. The paideia of
Effort as a Drive for Critical Thinking
10. The Development of a Critical
Perspective on Targets, Persecutors and Spectators of Bullying in Primary
Schools: The Childrens Rights and Regulatory Framework
11. Teaching Game
Concepts in Primary School
12. The Importance of Power Sharing and Child
Voice: Trust Building for Sustainable Peace Education
13. Health Promoting
Schools and the Teaching of Life Skills: A System for Well-Being Part 3:
Educational Practices
14. The Encouragement of Ethical Thinking and Caring in
Children: The MelArete Project
15. The Mirto Educational Centre and Centre
for Creative Development "Danilo Dolci": the Methodology of Reciprocal
Maieutics
16. Intercultural Dialogue and Cooperation from Local to Global
17.
Informed Health Choices Project: An International Validated Curriculum to
Disseminate Critical Health Literacy to the Public, Starting from Primary
School-Piloting Activities in Italian Primary Schools
18. The School as a
Workshop for Citizenship: Focus on the Active Educational Practices of
Scuola-Città Pestalozzi
19. The Educational Cooperation Movement, Democratic
Dialogue and the Emancipatory Power of Speaking: The Formation of Critical
Thinking at The Centre for Arts and Play-Mario Lodi
20. Educating Agents of
Change: The International Network of Ashoka Changemaker Schools Conclusion -
The Promotion of Judging Capacity: Possible Project Lines
Emanuela Guarcello is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Primary Teachers Education, Department of Philosophy and Sciences of Education, University of Turin, Italy.
Abele Longo is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, Department of Education, Middlesex University, UK.
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