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Dialogue Works runs courses in philosophy with children and ethical decision making in Education, and ethical decision making, development training and team building courses for business and the professions.
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MANAGEMENT
Ethical decision making through Dilemma Training – a six-step tool to better decisions, and developing codes of ethics (click here for details).
Mind & Muscle for Management – outdoor programmes for team building, decision making, and personal and professional development (click here for details).
EDUCATION
Philosophy with Children
We run a full range of SAPERE accredited courses in philosophy for children (Registered Charity No. 1037019). These include Level 1 courses (which we originally helped to set up and run), and Level 2 & 3 courses. This enables teachers to become P4C teacher trainers. Many P4C trainers in Britain were Dialogue Works students.
Ethical decision making in education through Dilemma Training (click here for details)
For articles on Dilemma Training with Key Stage 1 click here
For articles on Dilemma Training with Key Stage 2 click here
For articles on Dilemma Training with Key Stage 3 & 4 click here
Mind & Muscle residentials for children at risk, click here for details.
School visits
Dialogue Works offers a variety of in-service training opportunities. Options are:
- Advertised introduction courses for groups of teachers and others (once a term).
- Work with the entire staff of one school or of a cluster of schools (nursery, primary, secondary). If desired, this work can focus on areas of special interest such as: Citizenship, PSHE, Able Children, English, Critical and Creative Thinking.
- We can organise an event during school hours if part of ongoing training. We work with the children. The teachers observe or help and, after school, we work with the teachers alone to review the day and suggest how to follow it up. We can also work in the evening with parents (using the same classroom materials!).
- Ideally we follow up training with further school visits.
We will also provide training for Storywise – Thinking through Stories and the Philosophy Club project on request.
Taylor-made training & conferences
We can arrange special training sessions for individual institutions or a group of local institutions, as well as keynotes or workshops at (inter)national conferences.
Video Conferencing
In circumstances where a visit to clients is impractical, we can offer training through a video conference link.
Training Courses
Management
Education
- Schools As Thinking Communities
- P4C 1 Day Introduction
- Level 1 Introductory
- Levels 2 & 3 Developing Practice and Theory
- Mind & Muscle for Children at Risk
- Philosophy for Children Course Dates 2008
Management
- schools
- higher education
- other organisations
Dilemma Training in business and education enables people to think clearly about their own moral decisions through using a six-step thinking tool that has been used successfully in education, business, and the public sector. Apart from helping to make better decisions, the training helps to gain valuable insights into the 'core dilemmas' of an organisation by listening to real dilemmas of colleagues and young people. They can therefore use the Dilemma Training method as a first step to developing an insightful code of ethics. In education, the training also enables (informal) educators to use this method as an effective intervention to tackle, for example, bullying, substance abuse, eating disorders and racism. Dilemma Training is an innovative first step to shaping a more ethical community. Good moral decision-making is central to citizenship education, PSHE and the running of school councils. Dilemma Training improves the quality of thinking and discussion in all these contexts. The method has been developed by the European Institute for Business Ethics at the University of Nyenrode (NL) and adapted to formal and informal education in Britain and Ireland by Dialogue Works.
Developed by Dialogue Works, this training offers participants opportunities to
- Build Communities of Moral Enquiry
- Learn to identify moral dilemmas
- Discuss issues surrounding integrity and moral leadership
- Experience a practical six-step method for better decision-making
- Find out about resources for teaching the six-steps
- Find out how the method can be used in a variety of contexts including: classroom, professional meetings and even at home
- Gain a better understanding of what is involved in shaping an ethical organisation
The training can be based on ethical dilemmas from well-known literary works, or, especially in the case of business, from the organisation’s own case studies.
The training is recommended for all senior managers, not least because it explores the concept of moral leadership. It is also suitable for youth workers, community workers, teachers - in short, for everyone living or working with young people.
Education
SCHOOLS AS THINKING COMMUNITIES
Introduction to the P4C courses
Our Level 1 courses give educators the basic qualification in P4C - an approach to learning and teaching which has been developed over 40 years, and is now practised in 60 countries worldwide. Research has clearly established it as a very effective way of raising academic achievement, enhancing pupils' social, emotional and behavioural development, and realising creative potential with any age group, any ability, and in any subject.
The courses are relevant to colleagues interested in:
- Teaching & Learning Strategies
- Thinking Skills, including Critical Thinking
- The Primary Strategy
- The KS3 Strategy
- Oracy & Literacy
- Emotional Literacy
- Values Education
- Citizenship Education, including Global Citizenship
- Assessment for Learning
- Gifted & Talented
- Underachieving pupils
- Foundation phase
What is P4C?
P4C emphasises the importance of enquiry/ questioning skills , imaginative and meaningful dialogue , and careful reasoning /reflection in the process of education. It aims to improve pupils' abilities to think creatively, critically, caringly and collaboratively through well-guided discussion. The teacher's role is that of facilitator – a ‘guide on the side, not a sage on stage' – and the class learns to evolve as a ‘community of enquiry' : a group of people united in their desire to understand the world and each other more deeply.
Essentially, pupils ‘learn to learn' through P4C, by making their learning meaningful and intrinsically desirable, rather than extrinsically motivated. It is a powerful, varied, challenging and thorough methodology, which can reinvigorate the teaching and learning experience.
Who should attend?
P4C is useful to all education professionals. Due to its skills-based approach to learning and teaching, the Level 1 course is relevant to primary or secondary teachers, specialists (in G & T or Literacy for example), school governors, LEA advisors, headteachers and senior management teams. It has even been used as an effective method of running whole staff meetings.
P4C - A ONE-DAY INTRODUCTION
(counting towards Level 1)
Thinking through Stories
Storywise is a fascinating resource that harnesses the power of familiar picture books to open up space for children's thinking. This workshop designed for Foundation and Keystages 1&2 guides teachers and other adults to help them establish communities of philosophical enquiry in their own professional settings. This stand-alone course can also supplement existing Level 1 courses in Philosophy with Children (P4C) by focusing more on the special role literature can play in enquiries. The ambiguity of meaning in some picture books invites naturally deep responses. Guidance on selection of good books, how to facilitate the group's construction of new meaning and add rigour to the process are the main objectives of this course.
LEVEL 1 - INTRODUCTORY
What will participants gain from the course?
Through interactive workshops, course participants will:
- Learn practical ways of developing good thinking, questioning and communication skills in the learning environment
- Understand the theory and practice of being a good facilitator of learning dialogue
- How to develop the potential of their class as a 'community of philosophical enquiry'
- Be equipped with specific evaluation and assessment techniques
- Have experience of P4C as a participant, and be able to reflect on its process and effects
- See how P4C can be applied in their specific contexts as well as in regard to whole-school and cross-curricular targets
- Leave with a wealth of lesson and resource ideas and a refreshing ('enquiry and reflection') approach to learning and teaching
They will also:
- Receive a handbook including sample resources, and Level 1 certification
- the flexibility of the tutors to help personalise the learning
- the emphasis on kinaesthetic activities to help embed enquiry skills and attitudes in the classroom
- the use of visual and tactile aids for learning
- the importance given to higher-order thinking through evaluation and reviewing
- the emphasis on responsive listening
- the time spent on philosophical questioning
For an application form please contact us with your details.
LEVELS 2 & 3 - DEVELOPING PRACTICE & THEORY
For Foundation & all Key Stages - 30 hours, usually over 2 parts by special arrangement. Dialogue Works senior trainers helped to establish P4C in this country and developed the SAPERE training courses. UK senior trainers qualified to teach Level 3 courses are registered with Dialogue Works. They are regularly invited to teach Level 1, 2 and 3 courses with existing groups of teachers organised by universities, LEAs or (clusters of) schools.
P4C COURSES 2008
| Date | P4C Courses | Venue | Tutors | Contact |
| 17, 18 April | Level 1 Secondary Teachers |
Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Sue Lyle | lesley.dunbar@sihe.ac.uk |
| 8th May | Level 1 Day 1 |
Nr Leicester: Beaumanor Hall in Woodhouse Eaves |
Karin Murris | phil.goulding@newcroft.leics.sch.uk |
| 9th May | Level 1 Day 2 |
Nr Leicester: Beaumanor Hall in Woodhouse Eaves |
Karin Murris | phil.goulding@newcroft.leics.sch.uk |
| 13, 14 May | Level 1 | School of Education Caerloen Campus, Newport |
Martin Pollard Karin Murris |
ers@newport.ac.uk Tel: 01633 432400 |
| 14, 15 May | Level 2 Days 1 and 2 |
Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Sue Lyle Karin Murris |
lesley.dunbar@sihe.ac.uk |
| 16 May | Level 1 Day 1 |
Discovery Centre, Gosport | Alison Allsop Alison Hall |
allsopp@beeb.net |
| 20, 21 May | Level 1 | Professional Development Centre Eltham |
Karin Murris | ztillotson.greenwich@lgfl.net |
| 22, 23 May | Level 3 Days 1 and 2 |
Nr Leicester: Beaumanor Hall in Woodhouse Eaves | Karin Murris Joanna Haynes |
sharman.bailey@leicester.gov.uk |
| 2, 3 June | Level 3 Days 1 and 2 |
Leicester | Karin Murris Joanna Haynes |
sharman.bailey@leicester.gov.uk |
| 4, 5 June | Level 2 Days 1 and 2 |
Salford | Karin Murris Joanna Haynes |
rebeccawolfendale@salfordbep.co.uk |
| 10, 11 June | Level 1 | Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Sue Lyle Karin Murris |
lesley.dunbar@sihe.ac.uk |
| 12, 13 June | Level 1 Secondary Teachers - Science |
Swansea Institute of Higher Education | Sue Lyle Karin Murris |
lesley.dunbar@sihe.ac.uk |
| 24 - 27 June | Level 3 | Armagh, Northen Ireland | Roger Sutcliffe Karin Murris |
kate.ohanlon@selb.org |
| 27 June | Level 1 Day 2 |
Discovery Centre, Gosport | Alison Allsop | allsopp@beeb.net |
| 30 June 1 July |
Level 3 Days 3 and 4 |
Leicester | Karin Murris Joanna Haynes |
sharman.bailey@leicester.gov.uk |
| 2, 3 July | Level 2 Days 3 and 4 |
Salford | Karin Murris Joanna Haynes |
rebeccawolfendale@salfordbep.co.uk |
P4C Network Meeting
Newport - School of Education, University of Wales, Caerleon Campus, Newport.
Contact - shirley.egley@newport.ac.uk
Dates - 12th May
Swansea
Contact - lesley.dunbar@sihe.ac.uk
For further details, application forms and bookings:
Dialogue Works
The Old School Business Centre, Newport SA42 0TS
Tel: +44 (0)1239 820440; Email: enquiries@dialogueworks.co.uk
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