The Socratic Method Today Student-Centered and Transformative Teaching in Political Science

This chapter examines the troubled relationship and complex reception of the Socratic method in the early national period of Ame ...

Socrates Underground We can start by noting that the rediscovery of Plato and Socrates are separate historical problems. Whereas ...

Socratic method enjoyed renewed attention from three different sources. John Dewey was effective in changing the emphasis on stu ...

We can begin by contrasting Franklin with the early (positive) appraisals. The first print reference to the Socratic method in A ...

safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight in it, practis’d it continua ...

Here another aspect of the modern appreciation of the Socratic method comes to light. Franklin found that a“positive, assuming”a ...

early national period. Jefferson went further than Franklin: Socrates would be made safe for American democracy by making Socrat ...

the compatibility of philosophy with the agrarian ideal. And using the“Rural Socrates”as an ideal, Jefferson could help set an e ...

his criticism, even of the best men of Athens. Socrates will accost the worthiest citizens, even those whodonotwanttotalktohim.T ...

11 For interest, see Steven C. Bullock,“What Ben Franklin Could Teach Us about Civility and Politics,”The Wall Street Journal,No ...

Ketchum, Ralph ed. 2003.The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. Pangle, Lorraine S. 2014.“ ...

In the wake of Ernest Boyer’s work in the 1990s on scholarship in the academy, the scholarship of teaching and learning has grow ...

First, it is worth clarifying what is meant by the phrase“twenty-first-century education.”A report issued in 2009 by the Educati ...

economy. As the material modes of economic production change, one might say, so too must society’s superstructure in light of th ...

relative worth of the meanings that human beings make or the desires that drive them to do so” because each meaning is equally a ...

Perhaps more concerning is the fact that, as Kirschneret al. point out, the empirical data demonstrating that discovery-learning ...

discuss them together, divining their meaning and taking from them what grains of truth and wisdom they might have to offer.^34 ...

opinions (doxa). But because this is all the cave prisoners have ever experienced, and because everyone else in the cave repeats ...

But from this it seems Dewey would need to conclude that there is no stable knowledge available: everything is in flux. This, in ...

nihilism.”After all, why the will should have as its goal the emancipation of slaves as opposed to the enslavement of free peopl ...