Welcome to the resource bank
This section contains articles about the teaching of philosophy in schools and links to useful sites, as well as learning resources that have been developed by the BPA and may be freely downloaded. If you have any feedback to give us about the learning resouces, please e-mail us at hjsnts@hotmail.com.
Articles
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Teaching Philosophy in Schools.pdf |
The Philosophical Society of England has advocated both the use of philosophical material, and perhaps more importantly, philosophical methods in schools, a prominent strand in its history since the 1930s. We reprint from the archives Bernard Youngman's 1952 assessment of the task of a philosophical education. |
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Philosophy 4 Skool.pdf |
Philosophy 4 Skool by Michael Brett |
Links
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www.bpa.ac.uk |
BPA website |
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www.royalinstitutephilosophy.org |
Royal Institute of Philosophy website |
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www.alevelphilosophy.co.uk |
A very useful site for students and teachers of 'A' level philosophy and religious studies |
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philosophyonline.co.uk/ |
A site which, amongst many other things, provides material of interest to philosophy teachers in schools. Particularly useful are the summaries of two texts on the AQA 'A' level syllabus: Descartes' 'Meditations' and Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'. |
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cw.routledge.com/textbooks/philosophy/ |
This site contains a number of excellent free resources for AQA A.S. and A2 philosophy |
Newspaper Articles
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Wolff_Guardian.pdf |
Jonathan Wolff's artice from the Guardian on teaching philosophy in schools. |
Presentations
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Presentations.ppt |
A simple presentation about how to structure presentations |
Teaching resources
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DETERMINISM VS.ppt |
Presentation about determinism and free will |
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bibliography.pdf |
A bibliography of introductory-level books and links for philosophy |
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Argument test 1.ppt |
A series of general (non-philosophical) arguments that students can be asked to evaluate to test their thinking skills |
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Argument test 2.ppt |
A series of philosophical arguments that students can be asked to evaluate |
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TEACHER'S GUIDE.pdf |
Teacher's guide to the argument tests |
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TELLING GOOD ARGUMENTS FROM BAD.pdf |
Student's guide to argument tests |
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AQA PHILOSOPHY SYLLABUS WEB LINKS.pdf |
A series of links relevant to topics on the AQA philosophy 'A' level syllabus. |
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Unit 1 answers.pdf |
Suggested answers to selected questions from the philosophy A.S. unit 1 paper, January 2009 |
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Unit 2 answers.pdf |
Suggested answers to selected questions from the philosophy A.S. unit 2 paper, January 2009 |
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Specimen unit 3 answers.pdf |
Suggested answers to selected questions in 'A' level philosophy unit 3 specimen paper. |
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Specimen unit 1 answers.pdf |
Suggested answers to selected questions in 'A' level philosophy unit 1 specimen paper. |
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Specimen unit 4 answers.pdf |
Suggested answers to selected questions in 'A' level philosophy unit 4 specimen paper. |