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Gorard, Stepehn; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2017
There are tensions within formal education between imparting knowledge and the development of skills for handling that knowledge. In the primary school sector, the latter can also be squeezed out of the curriculum by a focus on basic skills such as literacy and numeracy. What happens when an explicit attempt is made to develop young children's…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Primary Education, Abstract Reasoning