Philosophy
(2009)    Philosophy curriculum development resources.  These resources should be viewed as ‘work-in- progress’, not as finished units to download and use.   They demonstrate a range of ways of thinking about how you might build the ‘front end’ of the NZ Curriculum (the Vision, Principles, Values, Key Competencies, Effective Pedagogies and Learning Area Statements) into your existing units of work, by re-focusing how you teach rather than changing what you teach.

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(May 2009)  In this resource we have not interrogated an existing unit then produced a revised unit.   We have instead taken a unit that we consider already fits well with the new curriculum, and shown in our comments why we believe this to be so.The question of truth lies at the heart of our desire to know, and of our claims to know what is.   If we want to make a reasonable claim to know anything, then we need to clarify our understanding of what we mean by truth.  Truth and falsity are foundational concepts used in the process of developing ideas of knowledge.  The clarification of ideas about truth assists students to be more confident in relating to others who hold diverse points of views.   Truth is a universally employed concept     Authors:  Michael Couch, David Legg