Rozwijanie myślenia krytycznego przez filozofowanie z najmłodszymi uczniami

Abstract

In the light of the international school achievements research results, polish pupils are the ones to perform the worst when thinking abilities are concerned. Experts criticise polish educational establishments for the quality of teaching as well as for neglecting the important areas of children development, from which criticism derives the research of the effective methods of fixing this situation. The Mathew Lipman’s educational program, whose principle is to develop thinking abilities and which constitutes almost ready teaching tool, is present among them. The project waits to be implemented in the polish educational system. One of the most crucial concepts of this program is the critical thinking. While there is no doubt about its value in the modern, democratic world, it is not yet generally believed that this could be tought at school. The article also presented an example of classes in the group of primary school children, who begin to work on their thinking. Because one of the conditions of the development of critical thinking is thinking about thinking.