Enquiring minds : Socratic dialogue in education / edited by Rene Saran and Barbara Neisser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saran, Rene.

Neisser, Barbara

Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy.

Philosophisch-Politische Akademie (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Questioning.

Teaching--Methodology.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

xiii, 182 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Socratic dialogue in education.

Place of Publication:

Stoke on Trent, UK ; Sterling, VA : Trentham Books, 2004.

Summary:

This book is the first in English to set out the theoretical underpinnings of modern Socratic Dialogue as a self-directed learning process. Central to the Socratic Method are the opportunities it gives educators and others to

Contents:

Part I The Socratic Method and education

Chapter 2 Socratic Dialogue and self-directed learning / Dieter Birnbacher, Dieter Krohn 9

Chapter 3 Theory and practice of Socratic Dialogue / Dieter Krohn 15

Part II Experience in schools

Chapter 4 The challenge of Socratic Dialogue in education / Tamsyn Imison 25

Chapter 5 Socratic Dialogue in teaching ethics and philosophy: organisational issues / Rene Saran, Barbara Neisser 29

Chapter 6 Experiences with Socratic Dialogue in primary schools / Ingrid Delgehausen 41

Chapter 7 Socratic Dialogue - my first experience / Rene Saran 47

Chapter 8 Experiences with Socratic Dialogue in secondary schools / Rene Saran 53

Chapter 9 'We had to think for ourselves' - using Socratic Dialogue in mathematics lessons in a secondary school / Mechthild Goldstein 71

Chapter 10 Socratic Dialogue in philosophy teaching in the sixth form / Barbara Neisser 79

Part III Theory in relation to practice

Chapter 11 The Socratic approach at school level: four models / Gisela Raupach-Strey 93

Chapter 12 Six pedagogical measures and Socratic facilitation / Gustav Heckmann 107

Chapter 13 The Socratic Method / Leonard Nelson, an introduction by Fernando Leal 121

Appendix 1 Organisations offering Socratic activities 167

Appendix 2 Socratic Dialogue - procedures and rules 171

Appendix 3 Literature survey on Socratic Dialogue by Fernando Leal 175

Appendix 4 Original sources - the editors acknowledgement of permissions and citing of original sources 181.

Notes:

"Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy (UK), PPA Philosophical-Political Academy (Germany)."

"Original sources": p. 181-182.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1858563364

OCLC:

55970752