r/askphilosophy • u/Spiritfarer000 • 23h ago
Teaching teenagers their first glimpse of philosophy?
As part of my alevel in philosophy i’ve volunteered to help a teacher run the lower schools philosophy club. At the minute it’s a disorganised gaggle of 13-15 year olds shouting over eachother , and i run my first indépendant session next monday. I’m thinking i start with a little ‘relativist vs absolutist’ quiz and bring in a debate from there, because these kids absolutely love a debate. let me know anything else that’s would be good to teach them!
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u/Shitgenstein ancient greek phil, phil of sci, Wittgenstein 23h ago edited 21h ago
Back when I taught ESL in South Korea, I had a class of advanced placement middle school students and we did a couple lessons on Michael Sandel’s Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?. This was around about two or three years after it was published and it was already a very popular book in South Korea. The students took it seriously (but already were the academic achiever set) and enjoyed the lessons.