ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|59 pages
Reasons for working on the promotion of thinking and judgement capacity in primary school
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Critical thinking in early years of education
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Critical judgement in primary school
part 2|84 pages
Fields of promotion of thinking and judgement capacity in primary school
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
Building community
chapter Chapter 7|11 pages
Homo digitalis? The new challenges for the development of critical thinking and judgement capacity
chapter Chapter 10|10 pages
The development of a critical perspective on targets, persecutors and spectators of bullying in primary schools
chapter Chapter 12|12 pages
The importance of power sharing and child voice
chapter Chapter 13|11 pages
Health Promoting Schools and the teaching of life skills
part 3|64 pages
Educational practices
chapter Chapter 14|11 pages
The encouragement of ethical thinking and caring in children
chapter Chapter 15|4 pages
The Mirto Educational Centre and Centre for Creative Development “Danilo Dolci”
chapter Chapter 17|10 pages
Informed health choices project
chapter Chapter 18|11 pages
The school as a workshop for citizenship
chapter Chapter 19|9 pages
The Educational Cooperation Movement, democratic dialogue and the emancipatory power of speaking
chapter Chapter 20|10 pages
Educating agents of change
part |17 pages
Conclusion