EUREKAMP! - An Activity Based Approach to the Practice of Philosophy

Wondering at the World Part of the Answer... ...to the question: Philosophy, what are you going to do with that? EUREKAMP! Philosophy in Schools University Classes University students become counsellors Developed resources impact camp program Camp experience informs university classes Students become skilled in program delivery Campers go to school excited about philosophy Schools send campers Teachers go back with skills and experience Ten weary footsore travellers all in a woeful plight. Sought shelter in a wayside inn on a dark and stormy night. Nine rooms, no more, the landlord said have I to offer you. For each of eight a single bed but the ninth must serve for two. A din arose, the troubled host could only scratch his head. For amongst those footsore travellers no two would share one bed. The troubled host was soon at ease he was a clever man. And to please all ten men he devised this most ingenious plan. In room marked “A” two men he placed the third he put in “B” The fourth in “C” he tucked away the fifth retired to “D” In “E” and “F” the sixth and seventh and in “G” the eighth man. In “H” the ninth he tucked away and then to “A” he ran. Wherein as I have said he’d laid two travellers by. Taking one, the tenth and last he lodged him safe in “I” Nine rooms, a room for each was made to serve for ten. And this it is that’s bothered me and many wiser men. Camp Programs Masterminds I & II Idea: Play games, lots & lots of games Philosophy Angle: Logic + Game Theory + Cooperation Idea: Philosophy subject sampler Philosophy Angle: Big ideas can be played with Ideas Safari Idea: Give tools to explore the world Philosophy Angle: Philosophy of science or philosophy of fun? School experience informs university classes University students partner with school teachers and classrooms Teachers become counsellors