Abstract
The study aims to examine the suitability of the Philosophy for Children approach to the learning outcomes of the Life Science course. In the study, the learning outcomes of the Life Science course, in which the Philosophy for Children approach can be applied, were determined, and a lesson plan example was presented. In the study, an analytical research method was adopted. 2018 Life Science Curriculum outcomes were accepted as documents, and document analysis was used as a data collection method. The researcher created a checklist that includes the outcomes of the Life Science course. The list evaluated whether or not the outcome is suitable for the Philosophy for Children approach and which philosophical concept it might be associated with was reviewed by a different Philosophy for Children instructor other than the researcher. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. The evaluations of the researcher and the field expert revealed that Philosophy for Children practices could be done in 72 learning outcomes out of a total of 148 outcomes. The philosophical concepts that emerged after the examination were divided according to the units. Emerging concepts were; rule, responsibility, punishment, friendship, respect, communication, care, love, respect, belonging, time, diligence, freedom, individual and society, good-bad, nature-human, life-death, kindness, and balance. While a single concept can be handled for outcomes, more than one can also be addressed. When the concepts are examined and the Life Science course is thought to be an interdisciplinary course, the course offers important opportunities for the use of the P4C approach. These opportunities cover a wide area such as values education, moral education, citizenship education, science education, and media literacy. It is suggested that the P4C approach should be applied in the Life Science course, taking into account the relationship between outcome and philosophical concepts. Limitations of the P4C approach were mentioned, and a lesson plan example was prepared for one of the Life Science course outcomes.
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