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DaN McKee · @Authenticdmckee
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Any A-level philosophy students (or teachers) out there struggling with the AQA spec and it’s key-terms that have no glossary - behold: philosophy-gets-schooled.podbe This latest podcast episode focuses on all the key terms you need to know for the exams, explained with clarity and hopefully humour by myself, Ben Jones, and host, Simon Kirchin.

#philosophy #philosophyalevel #philosophyteachers #philosophystudents #Podcast #philosophygetsschooled #ALevelPhilosophy #aqaphilosophy #philosophypodcast

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DaN McKee · @Authenticdmckee
266 followers · 198 posts · Server kolektiva.social
Epistemology

As it's World Philosophy Day today I thought I'd give this another shot. Last time the post got boosted lots, but responses with suggestions still remained thin on the ground. Keep boosting it, but more suggestions please!

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Global and diverse Mastodon Philosophy folk - If you were structuring a two year course for 16-18 year olds to introduce them to epistemology, ethics, mind, and god, who are the female philosophers and philosophers of colour you would want to see take centre stage to diversify and decolonise a stale, male, and incredibly pale, philosophy curriculum?

The UK’s only A-level syllabus for Philosophy (AQA A-Level Philosophy) currently has some glaring omissions in terms of both representation of women (barely any) and representation of ethnicity (every named philosopher on the spec is white) on its reading list, caused by its generally problematic structure of focusing on ‘canon’ thinkers in the four topics it covers and no longer including political philosophy on the course. It needs changing, or at least supplementing by teachers outside of the curriculum, to give students a better taste of what’s out there than this limited and exclusionary vision of philosophy.

So what should we include?

Here’s links to the current spec contents if you want to know how it is being taught right now:

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

#worldphilosophyday #philosophy #epistemology #ethics #mind #theology #diversify #decolonise #decolonize #ALevelPhilosophy #alevel #curriculum #teachers

Last updated 2 years ago
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DaN McKee · @Authenticdmckee
265 followers · 194 posts · Server kolektiva.social
Epistemology

Global and diverse Mastodon folk - If you were structuring a two year course for 16-18 year olds to introduce them to , , , and , who are the female philosophers and philosophers of colour you would want to see take centre stage to and a stale, male, and incredibly pale, philosophy curriculum?

The UK’s only A-level syllabus for Philosophy (AQA ) currently has some glaring omissions in terms of both representation of women (barely any) and representation of ethnicity (every named philosopher on the spec is white) on its reading list, caused by its generally problematic structure of focusing on ‘canon’ thinkers in the four topics it covers and no longer including political philosophy on the course. It needs changing, or at least supplementing by teachers outside of the curriculum, to give students a better taste of what’s out there than this limited and exclusionary vision of philosophy.

So what should we include?

Here’s links to the current spec contents if you want to know how it is being taught right now:

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

aqa.org.uk/subjects/philosophy

#philosophy #epistemology #ethics #mind #god #diversify #decolonise #ALevelPhilosophy

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