Learning objective 6-1: Inquiry
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- identify and describe philosophical ideas.
Indicators
- Identifies the main problems in different philosophical questions.
- Describes different perspectives when discussing philosophical ideas.
Possible context elaborations
- Class or group discussion of a list of philosophical questions; for example:
- Are we really free?
- Can you love animals and yet eat them?
- Who owns the All Blacks?
- Can anyone own the land or the seabed?
- Who owns language?
- What is time? How real is time?
- Use current event news items and identify philosophical ideas arising from them; for example:
- Is it OK for parents to use physical force to discipline their children?
- Should the drinking age be increased/lowered?
- Should New Zealand take more immigrants?
- To what extent are our behaviour and thoughts determined by friends and family?
- Should te reo be compulsory for all students?
- Are you Māori if you don’t speak te reo?
- Adopt a position and discuss it; for example:
- ‘I am just a material object’ or ‘I have a spiritual dimension’
- ‘I am determined by my DNA and personal history’ or ‘I am free to determine my own future’
- ‘All questions will eventually be answered by science’ or ‘there are important questions that science will never be able to answer’.
Assessment for qualifications
See
NCEA assessment: level 1 for suggestions of achievement standards and unit standards that could be used to assess this learning.
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Last updated October 24, 2011
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