{"id":327,"date":"2020-09-18T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/iapc\/?page_id=327"},"modified":"2020-09-22T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:44:54","slug":"wise-owl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/iapc\/wise-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children’s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wise Owl: Talking and Thinking about Children\u2019s Literature<\/em> is a curriculum series designed to use children’s literature to provide primary school students the opportunity to explore philosophical questions while developing critical and creative thinking skills. Each Wise Owl packet includes a Teacher\u2019s Guide to the philosophical issues in a children\u2019s book and to facilitating philosophical discussions with young people, along with reproducible Activity Cards with philosophical discussion questions based on the book. Similar guides to other children\u2019s books can be found at Matthews\u2019 \u201cPhilosophy for Kids<\/a>\u201d website.<\/div><\/div>\n

Wise Owl <\/em>was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by the late Gareth B. Matthews\u2014then a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst\u2014Lenore Carlisle Reilly\u2014then a doctoral student in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the same University, as well as an elementary school language resource teacher, who is currently Secretary of the College and an Assistant Professor of Education atMount Holyoke College\u2014and Shari Tishman, then a masters student in Critical and Creative Thinking at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and currently a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Project Zero. Originally published by Sundance Publishers & Distributors, Inc. in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the complete series is published here by the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children with the permission of Reilly, Tishman, and the estate of Matthews on the condition that it not be used for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

Teacher’s Guides and Guidelines for Discussion<\/h2>\n