Author name: Jason Buckley

Most schools in the UK have already broken up, but as this is a topical session I thought I’d send it out. In honour (/dishonour?) of the Conservative leadership election, we took leadership as the theme of the last week of online classes, centring on the difference between what it takes to become leader, and […]

Last month Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was cleared of her crime after a campaign by local schoolchildren in Massachusetts. However, she’s been dead for 275 years. Her “crime”? Being a witch. Follow our enquiry plan below.  Also this week, a novel way to embed P4C in your existing curriculum – and I’m looking for schools who

For the last class in our World Philosophy Tour of online classes at www.p4he.org we’ve been using the stories of Nasreddin Hodja stories – a “wise fool” character from Turkish folktales. There are hundreds of these stories. Some are short, almost just jokes – but there’s often a logical trick or some clever ambiguity about them, for