Plato and intellectual development : a new theoretical framework emphasising the higher-order pedagogy of the Platonic dialogues / Susanna Saracco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saracco, Susanna, author.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic.

Plato.

Teaching.

Republic (Plato).

Physical Description:

ix, 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book reconstructs the impact of Plato's words for the modern reader. In the Republic, Plato presented his schematization of human intellectual development, and called for collaboration between writer and reader. The response presented in this book results in a new theoretical framework for engaging with Plato's dialogues. Susanna Saracco analyzes the epistemic function of Plato's written words and explores Plato's higher order pedagogy, in which students are not mere learners and teachers are not the depositories of the truth. .

Contents:

Introduction

The structure of rational engagement in the reading of Plato

Theoretical childhood and theoretical adulthood

Plato's forms and scientific modelling

Theoretical adulthood

Addendum: "Journey to critical inquiry": students' analyses of scenarios designed to promote collaborative decision making.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319525867

9783319525860

OCLC:

966556129