Full Description
This exciting new textbook provides a sophisticated examination of the Socratic method for teaching political science students in higher education. It shows how the Socratic method is employed in the Platonic dialogs, compares its transformative approach to other student-centered teaching philosophies, and addresses the challenges of adopting the Socratic method in the contemporary classroom.
The book is divided into three sections that integrate these practical aspects on the Socratic method with the theoretical considerations of Socratic philosophy while also addressing contemporary concerns about teaching and learning in higher education.
Section One explores how the Socratic method is portrayed by Socrates in Plato's dialogs.
Section Two compares the Socratic method with modern and contemporary accounts of teaching and learning.
Section Three examines some of the contemporary challenges of practicing the Socratic method in the university classroom today and how teachers can overcome them.
Written in a clear and engaging style, this timely intervention is essential reading for upper undergraduate students enrolled in courses that specialize in pedagogical techniques, political theory, Socratic philosophy, and law.
Contents
Introduction: The Socratic Method Today [Lee Trepanier] Part 1: The Socratic Method in Plato's Dialogues 1. Poetic Questions: Poetry in the Socratic Method [Marlene K. Sokolon] 2. Socratic Method and Socratic Existence: Comedic Elements in the Apology [Barry Cooper] 3. Guiding Eros Towards Wisdom in Alcibiades I: Socratic Education in Plato's Alcibiades I [Vanessa Jansche] 4. Skepticism, Recollection, and the Socratic Method [Ann Ward] Part 2: The Socratic Method and Other Approaches 5. Socratic Method and Recollection in Plato and Kant [Steven F. McGuire] 6. The Americanization of the Socratic Method [Andrew Bibby] 7. One of These Things is Not Like the Other: John Dewey's Inquiry-Based Learning and the Socratic Method [David W. Livingstone] 8. The Courage to Recover Student-Centered Learning: Plato's Laches [Jordon B. Barkalow] Part 3: The Socratic Method in the Classroom 9. "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher": Socrates and Education [Sean Steel] 10. Is the Socratic Method Culturally Imperialistic? [Rebecca LeMoine] 11. Perilous Dialectics: The Continuing Hazards of the Socratic Method in Contemporary Universities [Paul Corey] 12. Socratic Method as a Search for Standards: Justice-Seeking, Knowledge-Seeking, and Critical Inquiry in Political Theory [Ramona June Grey]
