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

certain cultural backgrounds. One common example cited in the scholarly literature is the use of the Socratic method in classroo ...

Some scholars take this critique even further, contending that the very expectation of dialog between members of different cultu ...

time, the dialogs demonstrate the value of reason and dialog, out of which the criticism under consideration itself emerges. Eve ...

proper conditions for a fruitful Socratic conversation and to help students understand the benefits of such conversation. The“Ph ...

If the Socratic method entails submitting one’s ideas to continuous examination, then, as Nussbaum proclaimed, Socratic educatio ...

5 Nussbaum,Cultivating Humanity, 38. 6 Nicholas C. Burbules,“Book Review–Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in ...

rejection of the possibility of absolute truth, he agrees that due to the limitations of human understanding we must always hold ...

Meckstroth, Christopher. 2012.“Socratic Method and Political Science.”American Political Science Review 106/3: 644–60. Nichols, ...

The Socratic Method, the Liberal Arts, and Illiberal Threats Liberal arts education in North America is in decline. The humaniti ...

elenchusalone.^3 The most famous image is“the cave”inRepublic, which Socrates uses to describe education (514a–517c). There is a ...

when students multitask with devices in class–taking notes on computers, Facebooking, shopping, texting–it results in more distr ...

course website, which students are required to digest before coming to class, allowing the professor to transform her“lectures”i ...

Nussbaum argues that universities need to cultivate critical and creative thinking, and encourage students’empathic imagination, ...

The general sense among many students, especially those born and raised in the West, is that the Socratic questions have already ...

some students to turn classrooms into“safe spaces.”^25 It is perfectly reasonable for students to expect campus safety measures ...

The Socratic method is generally not perceived as a pedagogy of the oppressed (ironic given that Socrates was executed). It is v ...

an argument presented by an interlocutor; itdoes not impose a framework on that person. This allows for numerous“frameworks of t ...

It is unclear, as of 2017, how many students from this disaffected post-truth demographic will enter college classrooms and empl ...

In the current educational environment, it is unpopular to argue that a professor should ever make a student feel shame. There i ...

7 Faria Sana, Tina Weston and Nicholas J. Cepeda,“Laptop Multitasking Hinders Classroom Learning for Both Users and Nearby Peers ...