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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 108.3 Format: Bargain Price Label: Tarcher Manufacturer: Tarcher Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 28, 2006 Publisher: Tarcher Studio: Tarcher Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries-from Plato to bell hooks-with the "littlest" minds. Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in schools around the country over the last fifteen years, Little Big Minds guides parents and educators in introducing philosophy to K-8 children in order to develop their critical thinking, deepen their appreciation for others, and brace them for the philosophical quandaries that lurk in all of our lives, young or old. Arranged according to themes-including prejudice, compassion, and death-and featuring the work of philosophers from Plato and Socrates to the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr., this step-by-step guide to teaching kids how to think philosophically is full of excellent discussion questions, teaching tips, and group exercises. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Little book with such a powerful message.This book was one of those you pick up to read and can't put it down until the end wish is exactly what I did, excellent reading. Rating: - Great book!Little Big Minds has a very thoughtful, interesting as well as effective approach to teaching philosophy to children. It promotes their imagination and encourages thinking, expressing one's feelings and opinions over a broad spectrum of ideas. I think this book is a great resource not only for those teaching philosophy to children, but for anyone willing to learn more about various philosophers, their works, lives, viewpoints on compassion, love, friendship, justice, courage, nature, God, humanity, ... Read More Rating: - Not Just for KidsLittle Big Minds is not just for kids. Although it is a gift to parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and anyone working with children, the concepts, discussion questions and exercises are relevant to any age. The author writes clearly about each concept -- from friendship and freedom to responsibility and death. She skillfully integrates philosophy with music, poetry and literature, film and art. From Camus and Kant to Aretha Franklin, Jane Addams, Beethoven, Seamus Heany, Maya ... Read More Rating: - it's our jobOf course, like all great teachers, McCarty leaves the job of learning to us. In her book, she lays out the lesson plan, she cites the books she's read, then she relies on her readers to put it together in ways that make sense to us. So, not only is the book a master plan, it's a path. And all we have to do is walk upon it. Rating: - About time...It's finally here. A book which celebrates and embraces - in plain, uncluttered language - the greatest thinkers of all time; our children. A wonderfully thoughtful guide (rife with teaching tips for those who may wonder, "how?") this book goes to the heart of philosophy and gives us the gift of possibility by illuminating that which can be a little daunting - examining the Big Ideas with our kids. Little Big Minds is an invaluable resource on more levels than can be enumerated here, but as a teacher ... Read More 
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