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History

A Level Philosophy (ALP) was started by Michael Lacewing in June 2003 to support and encourage the teaching of philosophy in Years 12 and 13. Its purpose is to provide conferences and talks, for both students and teachers, on the philosophical topics that form part of the various AS and A2 level syllabi studied in Years 12 and 13. This includes the AS and A2 level exams in AQA philosophy, the philosophy of religion and ethics stream followed for AQA, OCR, and Edexcel religious studies, and the International Baccalaureate.

In March 2003, Heythrop College in London, where Michael Lacewing lectures, held a conference on A level philosophy. It was booked out twice over, and was a great success. To meet the growing demand for conferences for students, and then also for teachers, A Level Philosophy was started.

Conferences and talks

There are three types of service that ALP offers:

First, we organize conferences for students around the country at regular intervals.

Second, we organize conferences for teachers. These have limited places, and are designed to help both with the difficult philosophical topics of the syllabus and the distinct issues and challenges for teaching raised by the nature of philosophical argument.

Third, we organize talks and conferences at schools, from an after-dinner address to a full day conference with three speakers. Some schools invite our speakers just for their own students. Others advertise the conference to other schools in the area. You can book us to come and give a talk, or organize a conference, at your school. The topic(s) can be pretty much of your chosing, including talks on exam revision and technique. The fee depends on what you want covered, where you are in the country, and if you want a conference organized, how large the conference will be.

Resources

In May 2004, we created our resources page. It proved very popular and grew quickly to become the premier web resource on philosophy A level, developing a subscription service which provides access to over 90 handouts (as of March 2005) on philosophy topics and techniques for teaching, learning, and exam success.

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