Education

DialogueWorks unites senior trainers in PHILOSOPHY WITH CHILDREN, critical and creative thinking and dilemma training.

Our consultants teach children and teachers, as well as training trainers. Dialogue Works has trained many philosophy for children (P4C) trainers in Britain. We also work with parents and youth workers. This is reflected in huge growth of interest in philosophy with children and critical thinking during the past 20 years.

Our work has been featured in various media, including the Financial Times, The Guardian, Channel 4 television etc.
We organise and help to run conferences, do in-service work for Local Education Authorities, British and other European universities and schools, but also model good practice in classrooms from nurseries to A-level Gifted & Talented students.

Our experience and expertise, unmatched in Britain, emphasises rigour, self-correction through reflection and purposeful kinaesthetic activity.
We are arguably the only consultancy which addresses moral leadership, integrity, and schools as ethical organisations.

Finally, we offer Heads and Co-ordinators – e.g., for Gifted & Talented – personal assistance in understanding and planning the development of discussion skills, thinking skills or citizenship in their schools. We also work with whole schools (including pupils, parents, governors, staff) to develop moral reasoning, ethical codes, and to explore the role schools and teachers can play in the wider community.

We publish unique resources for schools and run a wide variety of courses and projects for developing dialogue and philosophical enquiry.
For further information on how our courses link to the curricula in Wales, England, Northern Ireland & Scotland, contact us at enquiries@dialogueworks.co.uk.

For an article by Prof Dr Karin Murris at the School of Education, University of Wales, Newport, entitled 'Professional Wisdom and Ethical Decision Making in Education'. Click Here.

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