Enquiring Minds
Socratic Dialogue in Education
- Format:
- Paperback / softback, 196 pages, 234 mm x 156 mm
- ISBN:
- 9781858563367
- Published:
- 1 May 2004
- Imprint:
- Trentham Books Ltd
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Rene Saran
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Barbara Neisser
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Dieter Birnbacher
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Dieter Krohn
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Tamsyn Imison
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Ingrid Delgehausen
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Mechthild Goldstein
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Gisela Raupach-Strey
CONTENTS: Part 1 - The Socratic Method and education: 1. Introduction; 2. Socratic Dialogue and self-directed learning; 3. Theory and practice of Socratic Dialogue. Part 2 - Experience in schools: 4. The challenge of Socratic Dialogue in education; 5. Socratic Dialogue in teaching ethics and philosophy: organisational issues; 6. Experiences with Socratic Dialogue in primary schools; 7. Socratic Dialogue – my first experience; 8. Experiences with Socratic Dialogue in secondary schools; 9. 'We had to think for ourselves' – using Socratic Dialogue in mathematics lessons in a secondary school; 10. Socratic Dialogue in philosophy teaching in the sixth form. Part 3 – Theory in relation to practice: 11. The Socratic approach at school level: four models; 12. Six pedagogical measures and Socratic facilitation; 13. The Socratic Method. Appendix 1: Organisations offering Socratic activities. Appendix 2: Socratic Dialogue – procedures and rules. Appendix 3: Literature survey on Socratic Dialogue by Fernando Leal. Appendix 4. Original sources.
"Those who are familiar with Socratic Dialogue and those who have only recently discovered it as an approach to doing philosophy alike will find Enquiring Minds an informative text Analytical Teaching"