This text offers a rationale for the popular idea among teachers and researchers that young children should be taught critical thinking and argument in the early years of their education.
Chapter 1 Thinking Skills and Early Childhood Education; Chapter 2 The Education of Young Citizens; Chapter 3 Should Young Children be Taught to Think Philosophically?; Chapter 4 Developing Philosophical Thinking in the Early Years Classroom; Chapter 5 Thinking Skills and Personal, Social and Moral Education; Chapter 6 Teaching Young Children the Skills of Argument; Chapter 7 Early Childhood Education and the Preparation of Teachers;
