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Wonder Ponder, Visual Philosophy for Children, is an imprint specialising in products for fun and engaging thinking. This website provides accompanying material to our Wonder Ponder boxes, including guides for children, parents and mediators, ideas for wonderpondering and fun games and activities. It is also a platform for sharing your very own Wonder Ponder content and ideas.

Wonder Ponder Blog

The Wonder Ponder blog includes posts on the creative processes behind our Visual Philosophy for Children material, as well as workshop experiences, guest posts on a variety of topics and generally interesting, eye-catching or mind-bloggling stuff we feel like sharing with you. 

What exactly is the purpose of Wonder Ponder?

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We receive and answer many interesting questions through our different channels (FacebookTwitteremail, as a comment on this blog...). Here is one we received recently: 

QUESTION:
'You say that your purpose is not to indoctrinate. So what are some of the 'missions' of Wonder Ponder's Visual Philosophy for Children project?'

ANSWER:
-       To give children a chance to think independently without anybody telling them what they should think or what it is better to think.

-       To give parents and children, teachers and students a chance to explore and inquire about the world together.

-       To help develop a habit of dialogue and contrasting views and perspectives, without expressing it as confrontation. 

-       To encourage imagination by suggesting possible alternative realities and thinking about them logically and in depth and detail. 

-       To give adults a tool for engaging in a non-directive dialogue with children, where they are likely to learn as much as the kids. 

-       To provide a space to thought as action, as an activity. So that one of the possible answers to the question 'What shall we do?' might be 'Let's think about something for a while' and for that option to be an attractive one.

These are just a few of Wonder Ponder's 'missions'.

If you have any interesting questions for us, please send it to us as a comment on this post or use FacebookTwitteremail...).