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

known rather than socially constructed. We recognize that we think about the things that are in the world. And as Socrates point ...

implemented twenty-first-century education strategies in their public school system through govern- ment policies (12). 6 Kevin ...

30 Martha C. Nussbaum,Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), 64. 31 Ev ...

Carao, Daniel H., Jenny Lenkeit and Leonidas Kyriakides. 2016.“Teaching Strategies and Differential Effectiveness Across Learnin ...

The ongoing debate over what should be taught or emphasized in American higher education obfuscates a concern that is intimately ...

Whereas lectures seek to transfer knowledge from teacher to student passively, student-centered learning employs interactive act ...

Socratic Subject Matter is Virtue Unlike the emphasis on skill development that constitutes the goal of contemporary student-cen ...

to be aware when one takes an inconsistent position and one becomes aware of this as a result of elenticexamination.^27 The same ...

and opens up to the world of knowledge. On the relationship betweenelenchusand the dialog format, Nelson writes, Only persistent ...

distinction is seen as a consequence of their fathers’neglect of their own education. Whereas Lysimachus and Melesias feel shame ...

conversation.^43 This is suggested by the fact that Socrates repeatedly has to keep Laches in the conversation (186e, 191d, 194a ...

By transforming the interlocutors from passive into active learners, Socrates highlights the student- centered quality of the So ...

Socrates tests Laches’understanding of courage as wise endurance by presenting him with a choice. On the one hand, courage can b ...

that Nicias’argument is not appropriate in a“gathering like this”and his concern for what is appropriate and inappropriate diffe ...

Nicias’response is telling for several reasons. First, he seems unaware of what Socrates’ examination of him reveals. Besides re ...

This conversation naturally fed into our discussion of the sixth question and how one thinks about knowledge. In particular, we ...

conversation. Doing this is nothing more than reporting, and reporting what is said is inconsistent with the requirements of act ...

reasoning with evidence. If they are in disagreement, before moving on to explanation and evid- ence, she must first demonstrate ...

centrality of virtue to human life and the Socratic method as the proper means of pursuing this topic. Perhaps more importantly, ...

11 See Philip Bellet al. Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits(Wash- ington: National Academic ...