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

ISBN-13: 9780815371885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 170 str.

Lee Trepanier

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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]

O autorze

Lee Trepanier is Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University, USA; editor of Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series; and author and editor of numerous books, the latest being Why the Humanities Matter Today: In Defense of Liberal Education (2017).