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Philosophy@The Virtual Art Museum will let you use works of art as prompts for philosophical discussions among high school students.\u00a0 Each of the units on the website contains 3 or 4 works of art with questions that you might find helpful in getting your students to really look at the works and discuss what they see in them.\u00a0 At the end, there are a series of philosophical questions that have been prepared for by the discussions of the artworks.<\/span><\/p>\n

In getting your students to discuss philosophy, there are a number of very important pieces of advice to give them.\u00a0 First, LISTEN!\u00a0 This is really important.\u00a0 Too often students do not really listen to their peers, only being concerned with what the teacher thinks.\u00a0 So make sure that they listen to what their peers have to say.\u00a0 You can help them do this by having them focus on AGREEING and DISAGREEING.\u00a0 Suggest that they make up their minds about what they think of what their classmate has said and be prepared to say WHY they think what they do.\u00a0 If your students start focusing on these four basic words, they will be well on their way to having a philosophy discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one more thing you can do to help them have their discussion and that is to get out of the way.\u00a0 I hope this doesn\u2019t offend you, but it is often hard for teachers to give their students the space they need to have a productive discussion.\u00a0 We\u2019ve studied so hard and taught so long that we expect our students to listen to what we have to say.\u00a0 But that won\u2019t help them develop their own thinking skills.\u00a0 So give them the space they need to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of each section, we have some suggestions for pursuing the topics in more depth.\u00a0 We hope that you and your students find this useful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please let us know if we can do anything to help you and other teachers use this website and to foster philosophical discussions among high school students.<\/span><\/p>\n

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