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Philosothon
A Philosothon is an annual competition wherein students explore philosophical and ethical issues. Students are scored highly where they demonstrate rigour and clarity of thought. Philosothons are held in most Australian states, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and other countries. These events have grown in number over the past eight years from a local competition involving eight schools in Perth Western Australia to involve many thousands of students in hundreds of schools around the world. An essential component of a Philosothon is the pedagogical model for teaching Philosophy to young people called Community of Inquiry. The event has grown alongside and within the Philosophy for Children movement. The first Australasian Philosothon was held at Cranbrook School, Sydney in 2011 and the first UK Philosothon was held in 2012 at King's College, Taunton.
== History ==
In 2007, Hale School in Perth Western Australia initiated a project to promote higher order thinking among secondary school students. The Head of Philosophy, Values and Religion, Mr Matthew Wills and the Head of Gifted and Talented Leanne Rucks came up with the idea to hold the event. The intention was to provide young people with an opportunity to reflect on philosophical and ethical issues while developing critical thinking and communication skills. Thus was born the Philosothon, sometimes described as a friendly ‘competition’ between schools in which students participate in graded philosophical discussions.
At the first Philosothon nine high school teams, each including of five students from Perth came together at Hale School. Students are divided into four "Communities of Inquiry" which ran for 30 minutes each. All four students representing their school participated in each discussion with the reserve student who is able to replace them on a maximum of two occasions. Students remained in year level groups for the first two Communities of Inquiry and then for the final two discussions students were mixed up at random. Marks were assigned to individual students by university lecturers in Philosophy and these scores were collated later to work out team scores and individual scores. All students received a certificate to honour their selection by their school and at the end a trophy was awarded to the winning school, medallions to the winning students and encouragement awards to the ‘most promising’ philosophers.
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