SFCP
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Dutch Network of Socratic Facilitators
Support was given to philosophical conferences, publications and a journal. In recent years, SFCP has sponsored scholarly research at doctoral and post-doctoral levels; arranged Socratic seminars which have included students in secondary schools, teachers of mathematics, education managers and other groups with very mixed backgrounds for half days, full days and weekends.
SFCP has also organised conferences to address various issues, including ethics in practice, civil society and the third sector, and relations between Eastern and Western Europe.
In 1998, SFCP established the Occasional Working Papers in Ethics and the Critical Philosophy and has recently published Enquiring Minds: Socratic Dialogue in Education (Trentham 2004) and Ethics and Socratic Dialogue in Civil Society (LIT Verlag 2004).
With the introduction of citizenship into the UK school curriculum and the growing interest in philosophy, SFCP is focusing more on acquainting teachers with the Socratic method as a valuable tool for these developing subjects. In 2004 a pilot course introduced educationists to the Socratic approach to learning and teaching.
Many activities involve networking to extend interest in Critical Philosophy and SD among professionals across disciplines and to encourage the fostering of ethical practice in everyday life.
The Society has a mailing list to which anyone interested in SFCP activities can be included.
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