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Author Abbott, Colleen.

Title Thinking and talking through literature : using the philosophical inquiry approach in the middle years of schooling (5-8) / Colleen Abbott & Susan Wilks
Published [Cheltenham, Vic.] : Hawker Brownlow Education, [1997]
©1997

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Description i-iv, 5-79 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Summary "Provid[es] teachers with practical strategies to ensure that students [Years 5-8] engage in deep, co-operative discussion" -- p.8
"The texts appear under the following groups of issues: 1, Power, authority, ownership. 2, Change, communication. 3, Existence reality, identity. 4, Justice, injustice, good, evil. 5, Courage, loyalty, friendship, trust, relationships. 6, Fairness, difference , rights, freedom". For each group of issues there are several texts of varying complexity" -- p.8
Notes Portraits of authors on back cover
Bibliography Bibliography : pages 77-79
Audience For primary grades
Notes Donated by the Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia GTC Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia
Subject Children and philosophy.
Children's literature -- Social aspects -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Literature -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Questioning -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Author Wilks, Susan.
ISBN 1864016590
Other Titles Cover title: A: Teacher's guide to thinking and talking through literature