| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 98 === Abstract
Children were born with the natural philosophical seeds. They think as the way Socrates does. They solve problems by asking questions when they are interested in them. The purpose of this essay is to observe the operation of the thinking and the logical narration of children by co-reading, questioning, and discussing the stories of Arnold Lobel within the community of inquiry.
There are nine children in the community of inquiry who are at the third grade. Every time we use a story as a medium to provoke their thinking. Students and I read together and they question during or after the story, then we use dialogue to discuss the ones they are interested in. At the process goes, the narration of stories or of dialogue that make students laugh have humorous qualities, also make them think and question. This research consults Le Rire[Laughter] of Henri Bergson and Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten of Sigmund Freud to analyze the texts that make students laugh and sums up to three kinds of humorous types: ossification ,confusion and solving ,and innocent foolishness”. They all contain element of ridiculousness. After laughing, students focus questions on specific narration paragraphs and rationalize them by reasoning.
Maybe the way of how children doing philosophy differs from that of adults, but both begin with curiousness. As long as adults offer a free space and time of thinking for children, they’ll be happy to join the activities of philosophical thinking.
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