Postdoc Seminar in Innovative Teaching: Philosophy with children as a method in higher education

Date: 

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA.

The goal of this activity is to show university teachers the methodology of Philosophy with/for Children (P4C). This method hasn’t been designed only to teach philosophy, but can be applied to any field of knowledge and it’s based on the principles of active and collaborative learning through dialogue.

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Teaching methods have evolved throughout last decades. In order to learn the different possibilities that Innovative Teaching offers, this seminar will explore how each field can provide ideas that can be applied in other areas. In this way, both participants and assistants will improve their knowledge concerning to how to teach and how to create a better environment in the class, in which students play a more dynamic role. These activities will be held mainly by predoc and postdoc fellows of RCC.

Speaker: Emmanuel Chamorro, RCC Predoctoral Fellow, Romance Languagues & Literatures; PhD Candidate at Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Philosophy and Society.

Sponsors: RCC; Postdocs@RCC