Wendy C. Turgeon

Philosophical Adventures with Fairy Tales

New Ways to Explore Familiar Tales with Kids of All Ages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The scope of the book is to offer guidelines to doing philosophy with children and young people using some familiar fairy tales.

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Produktdetails

• Big Ideas for Young Thinkers
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781475853223
• ISBN-10: 147585322X
• Artikelnr.: 58411530

Autorenporträt

Wendy C. Turgeon teaches philosophy to undergraduates at St. Joseph's College-New York and for years taught a course at Stony Brook University to graduate students in philosophy with children. She has published in the field of philosophy for/with children and presented at conferences for many years. Her other areas of interest are aesthetics, environmental ethics, and medieval philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Doing philosophy with children and young people
Chapter 1: Brief overview of the book with guidelines on how to use it
depending upon the audience (parents, teachers, philosophy club moderators,
interested readers)
Chapter 2: Introduction to philosophical inquiry with children and young
people (and adults)
Value of questions and the criteria for good thinking
Having a philosophical dialogue: guidelines for the family, for the
classroom, for the philosophy club
Chapter 3: Why Fairy Tales for philosophy?
Benefits of "doing philosophy" and problematizing fairy tales, including a
short guiding review of current literature on this topic
Part II: Fairy Tales and Philosophy
Chapter 4: Introductory Chapter: where to find fairy tales
Some Notes on the Sources [If you want this separate from the intro
chapter]
Chapter 5: The Frog King or Iron Heinrich
Chapter 6: Rapunzel
Chapter 7: Fitcher's Bird
Chapter 8: Little Red Riding Hood
Chapter 9: The White Snake
Chapter 10: The Little Mermaid
Chapter 11: The Seven Ravens
Chapter 12: Cinderella
Chapter 13: Beauty and the Beast
Chapter 14: Hansel and Gretel
Chapter 15: Snow White
Chapter 16; Puss 'n Boots
Chapter 17: The Three Bears
Appendix A: Sources for more information about philosophy and children
Appendix B: Contemporary Reimagining of Classic Fairy Tales
Appendix C: List of the themes in the Fairy Tales chapters
About the Author