A Survey of Analytic Teaching Students

Abstract

Introduction:  Philosophy for Children was brought to Fort Worth and the surrounding school districts in 1979 by Texas Wesleyan College.  From that time until the summer of 1982, Wesleyan's program, which has come to be called Analytic Teaching, has trained over 100 teachers to use materials and techniques which are designed to help children improve their thinking skills.  In order to get a sense of what those teachers who had been through training in Analytic Teaching thought about the program, the following survey was devised.  Ninety-seven of the teachers who had taken Analytic Teaching at Wesleyan for six hours of graduate credit were located.  Three separate solicitations of the questionnaire produced responses from 41 of those teachers.  Although a greater number of responses would be necessary for any real conclusions to be drawn concerning the teachers' views of the worth of the program, the responses we received proved to be quite interesting.