Stories for “philosophy for kids” program based on critical thinking

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

javad farzanfar ¹ , a.akbar ajam ²

1 - 1استادیارگروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه شهید باهنر کرمان، کرمان، ایران
2 - 2 استادیارگروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه پیام نور، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2016-04-20

Keywords: philosophy for children program, story, critical thinking, Children&#039, s literature,

Abstract :

Present research has done by using content analysis in intellectual type of stories to show how philosophy for kids can achive its main goals, fostering critical thinking, in the stories which are in children's literature. As much as possible, the researcher tried to choose well-known stories for audiences and acceptable for critics, experts and writers of kids and teenagers literature and the movement of teaching philosophy for Children. For example Morteza Khosro nejad, Yahya Ghaedi’s ideas have been used and to improve the philosophic level of stories, Mir Abdelhosien Naghib zadeh’s idea has been used too. Purposive sampling is used for sample size. Studing stories stopped when researcher found out the repetitive points. The texts of stories were the analysis unit. The findings showed that the stories have the potential of developing critical thinking in their readers adequately and beautifully. Therefore, studying and discussing these stories by kids and teenagers can help the program of “philosophy for kids” and reaching better results.

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