What's our why?
If children don't learn to talk confidently to groups in their primary years, it's unlikely they ever will. It impacts their learning and their potential.
And with the ever-increasing pressure from above, genuine opportunities for face-to-face dialogue and independent thinking can be squeezed out. Our mission to is empower teachers to find the opportunities for independent thinking and speaking in their existing curriculum.
We work with many schools that have already tried Philosophy for Children (P4C) and oracy, but want to make it happen across our curriculum.
We can offer your school everything you need to develop oracy and critical-thinking with minimum of fuss for teachers.
We've been featured in many publications over the years:
Who are we?
As a teacher of English, Jason Buckley rotated around form groups, telling philosophical stories and getting arguments going off the back of them. Years later when he was looking for a name for his new organisation, he remembered one boy exclaiming “Yay, it’s the Philosophy Man!”
Whilst Jason was fast becoming an internationally-renowned speaker, Tom Bigglestone was heading up his own projects as Head of Religious Studies.
From small beginnings in 2008, The Philosophy Man is now the UK's leading independent provider of P4C training and workshops, and we work in schools across the world. Interested in getting us in to work with your staff? Contact us today!
Want to talk about Philosophy, Oracy or something else?
The Philosophy Man
7 Tower Road,
Writtle,
Chelmsford,
CM1 3NR