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Philosopher et méditer avec les enfants
Ce livre raconte l'aventure extraordinaire que Frédéric Lenoir a vécue avec des centaines d'enfants à travers le monde francophone. Pourquoi, en effet, attendre la classe de terminale pour aborder des questions existentielles : l'amour, le respect, le sens de la vie, les émotions, etc. ? Les ateliers philosophiques montrent l’étonnante capacité des enfants à penser. Au-delà des concepts, ils y apprennent les règles du débat d'idées et développent leur discernement et une réflexion personnelle. Ces ateliers sont précédés d’une courte méditation qui aide chacun à être présent dans l’instant et à mieux se concentrer. Frédéric Lenoir est philosophe et sociologue. Il mène depuis plusieurs années une réflexion sur la sagesse et l’art de vivre. Il est l’auteur de nombreux livres – essais et romans –, traduits dans le monde entier. • UNE MÉTHODE CONCRÈTE à destination des parents, enseignants, éducateurs qui souhaitent accompagner les enfants. • Des OUTILS, des conseils, des FICHES de notions. • Des CLÉS POUR COMPRENDRE LA MÉDITATION et la pratique de l’attention ainsi que des séances guidées.
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256 pages, Pocket Book
Published March 4, 2020
About the author
Frédéric Lenoir
141 books473 followers3 June 1962. Birth in Madagascar.
1964. His parents return to France and move to the country to raise their four children, born in Morocco and Madagascar.
1970-1979. He moves to Paris. An unruly student, he is particularly ill-disposed to doing schoolwork and is sent to three different lycées (Victor Duruy, Buffon, Camille Sée). As a teenager he reads Hesse and Dostoyevsky, kindling his interest in existential questions. At 15 he develops a passion for philosophy after reading Plato’s Dialogues, and in astrology from reading books by André Barbault.
1980-1985. The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has a profound effect on his intellectual direction, triggering a desire to study mankind’s great myths and religions. After an early fascination with Asian spirituality, in particular Tibetan Buddhism, discovered through the work of Chogyam Trungpa, he develops an interest in the Kabbalah and begins taking classes in the symbolism of Hebrew letters. He has no particular interest in studying Christianity, however. His Catholic upbringing, although very liberal, had focused too much on dogma and morality. Then, at 19, he reads the Gospels for the first time, and is amazed by them. He begins studying philosophy at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, with his childhood friend Emmanuel Rouvillois, who later becomes a monk by the name of Brother Samuel; there, he meets two crucial and outstanding professors: the Dominican philosopher Marie-Dominique Philippe (with whom he writes a book of interviews, Les trois sagesses, in 1994) and the philosopher and Talmud scholar Emmanuel Lévinas who, as a testament, leaves him a fine text on ethics in his book Le Temps de la responsabilité (1991). Parallel to his philosophy studies, he goes on a personal spiritual quest that leads him to spend several months in Israel and India, as well as in Christian hermitages and monasteries in France.
1986. As editor of the religion department at Editions Fayard, he publishes several books examining philosophical and spiritual themes.
1991. He resigns from his position as editor to devote more time to academic research and writing, and begins work on a doctoral thesis on Buddhism in the West at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
1992. Passionate about ecological issues, he helps found the association ‘‘Environnement sans frontières.’’ In 2003 he publishes a book of interviews with his friend Hubert Reeves, who sounds the alarm on the risks threatening the planet. (Mal de Terre).
1994. He is appointed associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Following in the footsteps of Edgar Morin, one of his intellectual mentors, he takes on the issue of religion in a multi-disciplinary approach combining philosophy, sociology and history.
1997. He writes l’Encyclopédie des religions, conceived and compiled with Ysé Tardan-Masquelier, (2500 pages, 2 volumes, 150 collaborators).
1996-2000. He writes for L’Express on a regular basis.
1998. He writes and directs an international study about sects for television with Lolande Cadrin-Rossignol. The documentary series, entitled ‘‘Sectes, mensonges et idéaux’’ (‘‘Sects, Lies and Ideals’’), is broadcast in France on the Cinquième channel and in numerous other countries. He also co-writes a documentary about the Dalai Lama that is broadcast on Canal +, and a series of three 52’ episodes on the Cinquième channel entitled ‘‘Dieu a changé d’adresse’’ (‘’God has changed his address’’).
1998-2005. He writes a number of books − some alone, others with Catherine David and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac − of interviews with such diverse figures as Abbé Pierre, Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Vanier, Hubert Reeves and Jean-Claude Carrière.
1964. His parents return to France and move to the country to raise their four children, born in Morocco and Madagascar.
1970-1979. He moves to Paris. An unruly student, he is particularly ill-disposed to doing schoolwork and is sent to three different lycées (Victor Duruy, Buffon, Camille Sée). As a teenager he reads Hesse and Dostoyevsky, kindling his interest in existential questions. At 15 he develops a passion for philosophy after reading Plato’s Dialogues, and in astrology from reading books by André Barbault.
1980-1985. The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has a profound effect on his intellectual direction, triggering a desire to study mankind’s great myths and religions. After an early fascination with Asian spirituality, in particular Tibetan Buddhism, discovered through the work of Chogyam Trungpa, he develops an interest in the Kabbalah and begins taking classes in the symbolism of Hebrew letters. He has no particular interest in studying Christianity, however. His Catholic upbringing, although very liberal, had focused too much on dogma and morality. Then, at 19, he reads the Gospels for the first time, and is amazed by them. He begins studying philosophy at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, with his childhood friend Emmanuel Rouvillois, who later becomes a monk by the name of Brother Samuel; there, he meets two crucial and outstanding professors: the Dominican philosopher Marie-Dominique Philippe (with whom he writes a book of interviews, Les trois sagesses, in 1994) and the philosopher and Talmud scholar Emmanuel Lévinas who, as a testament, leaves him a fine text on ethics in his book Le Temps de la responsabilité (1991). Parallel to his philosophy studies, he goes on a personal spiritual quest that leads him to spend several months in Israel and India, as well as in Christian hermitages and monasteries in France.
1986. As editor of the religion department at Editions Fayard, he publishes several books examining philosophical and spiritual themes.
1991. He resigns from his position as editor to devote more time to academic research and writing, and begins work on a doctoral thesis on Buddhism in the West at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
1992. Passionate about ecological issues, he helps found the association ‘‘Environnement sans frontières.’’ In 2003 he publishes a book of interviews with his friend Hubert Reeves, who sounds the alarm on the risks threatening the planet. (Mal de Terre).
1994. He is appointed associate researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Following in the footsteps of Edgar Morin, one of his intellectual mentors, he takes on the issue of religion in a multi-disciplinary approach combining philosophy, sociology and history.
1997. He writes l’Encyclopédie des religions, conceived and compiled with Ysé Tardan-Masquelier, (2500 pages, 2 volumes, 150 collaborators).
1996-2000. He writes for L’Express on a regular basis.
1998. He writes and directs an international study about sects for television with Lolande Cadrin-Rossignol. The documentary series, entitled ‘‘Sectes, mensonges et idéaux’’ (‘‘Sects, Lies and Ideals’’), is broadcast in France on the Cinquième channel and in numerous other countries. He also co-writes a documentary about the Dalai Lama that is broadcast on Canal +, and a series of three 52’ episodes on the Cinquième channel entitled ‘‘Dieu a changé d’adresse’’ (‘’God has changed his address’’).
1998-2005. He writes a number of books − some alone, others with Catherine David and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac − of interviews with such diverse figures as Abbé Pierre, Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Vanier, Hubert Reeves and Jean-Claude Carrière.
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May 25, 2023
S’adresse surtout aux enseignants
June 25, 2024
Beaucup à apprendre des enfants.
April 10, 2017
Pas un mauvais livre, mais certainement pas le meilleur ni le plus profond de Frédéric Lenoir. Je m'attendais à un livre plus près de la didactique sur comment enseigner la philosophie et la méditation aux enfants. Il y a effectivement un peu de ça, mais on est surtout dans le verbatim de ses propres discussions avec des groupes d'enfants. Certains sujets et approche à prioriser pour la philosophie sont intéressants et bien synthétiser. Finalement, on parle très peu de la méditation, le livre est vraiment à 80% ou plus sur la philosophie, pas que cela m'a nécessairement dérangé, mais il est pertinent de le mentionner, car le titre laisse croire à un distribution 50-50. On lvre qui pourrait peut-être pister les enseignants d'éthique qui débute, mais j'en aurais pris plus, moins d'anecdotes et plus de didactiques, mais bon...
September 19, 2017
Opinião publicada no Efeito dos Livros
O projecto desenvolvido por Fréderic Lenoir é de extrema importância, especialmente para professores e educadores. Eu sou apenas uma mãe curiosa, mais com a temática da meditação mas curiosamente foi a parte sobre a filosofia que me prendeu à leitura.
Repleto de valiosas dicas sobre como conduzir e dinamizar sessões sobre várias temáticas (amor, amizade, felicidade, sucesso, morte, sentido da vida) com crianças de faixas etárias do 1º e 2º ciclo de escolaridade.
A referência à meditação, que foi o que me atraiu para o livro, é relativamente limitada mas acho que a ideia geral é criar com as crianças um espaço/tempo no seu dia a dia onde possam desacelerar um pouco e partilhar as suas opiniões e pensamentos.
Seja na escola, ATL's ou em casa, é sempre bom conseguir proporcionar às crianças a abertura necessária para se expressarem e ouvirem os outros.
Adorei ler as transcrições das várias sessões que Frédéric fez com crianças de várias idades, cidades e estratos sociais. Algumas respostas são simplesmente deliciosas e dei por mim a pensar que seria ideal isto ser a regra e não uma excepção.
Se possível, devia ser extensível aos adultos.
Quantas pessoas ficariam sem saber o que responder quando questionados sobre a diferença entre uma emoção e um sentimento?
Quantas pessoas nunca perderam tempo a debater os seus pensamentos sobre amizade, compaixão ou até a morte?
O projecto desenvolvido por Fréderic Lenoir é de extrema importância, especialmente para professores e educadores. Eu sou apenas uma mãe curiosa, mais com a temática da meditação mas curiosamente foi a parte sobre a filosofia que me prendeu à leitura.
Repleto de valiosas dicas sobre como conduzir e dinamizar sessões sobre várias temáticas (amor, amizade, felicidade, sucesso, morte, sentido da vida) com crianças de faixas etárias do 1º e 2º ciclo de escolaridade.
A referência à meditação, que foi o que me atraiu para o livro, é relativamente limitada mas acho que a ideia geral é criar com as crianças um espaço/tempo no seu dia a dia onde possam desacelerar um pouco e partilhar as suas opiniões e pensamentos.
Seja na escola, ATL's ou em casa, é sempre bom conseguir proporcionar às crianças a abertura necessária para se expressarem e ouvirem os outros.
Adorei ler as transcrições das várias sessões que Frédéric fez com crianças de várias idades, cidades e estratos sociais. Algumas respostas são simplesmente deliciosas e dei por mim a pensar que seria ideal isto ser a regra e não uma excepção.
Se possível, devia ser extensível aos adultos.
Quantas pessoas ficariam sem saber o que responder quando questionados sobre a diferença entre uma emoção e um sentimento?
Quantas pessoas nunca perderam tempo a debater os seus pensamentos sobre amizade, compaixão ou até a morte?
September 16, 2019
J'ai lu ce livre dans le but d'implanter ce type d'ateliers en classe et force m'est d'admettre que l'idée est lumineuse, pertinente et qu'elle fera sans doute le bonheur de mes élèves. Les fiches sur les grands thèmes, à la fin du livre, sont plutôt pratiques. La lecture du livre s'étire cependant un peu, il y a beaucoup de transcriptions de ce qui s'est passé pendant les ateliers, ce qui devient répétitif. À l'opposé, j'ai trouvé qu'il n'y avait pas assez de détails pour guider l'implantation de ce système en classe. En somme, ça ressemblait parfois trop à un rapport qu'à un guide.
September 12, 2018
Les fiches de notions sont très intéressantes pour animer des ateliers philo au sein de la classe, et les débats retranscrits sont intéressants pour les débutants.
Moi qui ai déjà pratiqué dans ma classe, cette partie de l'ouvrage ne m'apporte pas grand chose mais il est possible que ça fournisse des pistes aux pédagogues qui débutent dans cette pratique.
Moi qui ai déjà pratiqué dans ma classe, cette partie de l'ouvrage ne m'apporte pas grand chose mais il est possible que ça fournisse des pistes aux pédagogues qui débutent dans cette pratique.
March 17, 2020
Très intéressant de voir des cas de situations concrètes d'échanges philosophiques avec des enfants. Ça fait une bonne introduction en la matière pour un parent comme moi et ça me donne le goût d'aller plus loin. Les fiches de la fin du livre sur les divers sujets à traiter avec des enfants seront de bons guides pour moi, surtout avec les références qui les accompagnent.
April 17, 2024
Ce livre manque de didactique. Il est cependant très intéressant pour des novices qui souhaitent apprivoiser le concept en douceur. Toutefois, il aurait été pertinent de rajouter des pistes de mises en place en classe. Les fiches à la fin sont notamment pertinentes pour nous guider pour commencer.
March 15, 2026
Il s'agit d'échanges libres avec des enfants qui répondent à des questions importantes de la vie. Leurs réponses révèlent souvent de la sagesse , de la profondeur et de l'intelligence.Ils ont beaucoup à apprendre aux adultes.
November 29, 2018
Eblouissant....la sagesse des enfants est impressionnante!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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