It takes a considerable commitment from both sides but I think precisely because of that it tends to be most effective: doing one big thing rather than lots of small things. For me, it”s about getting to know a school and its staff and making philosophy work in their context. For the school, it’s a matter of having a sustained focus on whole-school improvement through philosophy and oracy. This is the most valuable, impactful work I do, with state, independent and international schools. The staff meeting typified the energy and passion that you have for philosophy and you have really helped it to spread through the Prep school and to add value to the children’s experience. Hi Jason, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all of your efforts over the past few days. Here’s a kind comment I had from David Boynes who has been wrangling the schedule and driving it all: I was using the story in workshops at Holme Grange School with year 2 yesterday, part of an ongoing engagement with the school that has involved training, demonstrations, Sticky Questions, a whole-year workshop and teacher observations. Tricks are interesting because they straddle values of effectiveness and values of morality – tricks can be effective or ineffective, clever or obvious, intended to teach someone a lesson or purely selfish. Which is the better trick – one that is sure to succeed, or one that someone could see through but doesn’t?.Is a trick about making someone do something, or about making them believe something?.Is it better to have well behaved or badly behaved characters in moral tales?.“Two wrongs don’t make a right.” Does this still apply to tricks?.Are tricksters good guides for morality?.Are tricksters an example of what to do or what not to do?.Do we secretly wish we could behave like Anansi?.Is it better to be like Anansi or Chameleon?.Who is to blame for Anansi being tricked?.Good trick? Bad trick? (you can ask this of each of the tricks in the story as you go along, and revisit it, as well as exploring the general ingredients of what makes a good or bad trick).Here are some questions to go with the story: In the story, Anansi tricks Chameleon and the village chief into gaining a field full of crops, but god and Chameleon put Anansi in his place with an ingenious trick or their own – when a trickster is tricked, who should be blamed for the tricking? You can find a nice telling of it at an absolute treasure trove of stories. This week, a story from West Africa about the spider trickster character Anansi.
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