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Socratic Method

The Socratic Method is a form of cooperative argument that uses questioning to stimulate critical thinking. It involves the questioner drawing out ideas and assumptions from the respondent. The key aspects are questioning knowledge, evaluating ideas, considering self-generated understandings, and using doubts to identify errors. The method helps students distinguish what they know from what they don't and acquire tools to apply questioning in everyday life. It follows steps like wondering, hypothesizing, refutation through examination, and deciding whether to accept or reject ideas.

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Socratic Method

The Socratic Method is a form of cooperative argument that uses questioning to stimulate critical thinking. It involves the questioner drawing out ideas and assumptions from the respondent. The key aspects are questioning knowledge, evaluating ideas, considering self-generated understandings, and using doubts to identify errors. The method helps students distinguish what they know from what they don't and acquire tools to apply questioning in everyday life. It follows steps like wondering, hypothesizing, refutation through examination, and deciding whether to accept or reject ideas.

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DESCRIPTION The Socratic Method (also known as the Elenchus method, the

elenctic technique, or Socratic debate) is a type of cooperative


arguing discourse between individuals that involves asking
and responding questions in order to promote critical
thinking and pull out ideas and underlying presuppositions.

PERSONALITIES
Describe the Socratic Method as being exemplified by )
questioning knowledge, ) evaluating knowledge, ) having
regard for self-generated knowledge, and ) focusing on error
to evoke doubt.

Identify at least two major purposes of Socratic questioning in


teaching: ) Helping students distinguish what they know
from what they don’t, and ) Helping students acquire Socratic
tools to apply in everyday life.

Identifies five steps in the Socratic approach: ) Wonder, )


Hypothesis, ) Elenchus (refutation and cross-examination), )
Acceptance/rejection of the hypothesis, and ) Action.

Identifies four key steps in the Socratic Method: ) eliciting


relevant preconceptions, ) clarifying preconceptions, )
testing one’s own hypotheses or encountered propositions,
and ) deciding whether to accept the hypotheses or
propositions.
Identifies three main ways of using the method in Socrates’
philosophical discourse: ) refutation, ) truth-seeking, and )
persuasion.

ETYMOLOGY The technique is named after Socrates ( BC), one of the


most influential philosophers in history, who lived in ancient
Athens, Greece.

There are no known writings produced by Socrates. Most of


what we know about his life comes from Plato, a student of
Socrates, who wrote a series of “dialogues” featuring his
teacher (although Socrates did not consider himself a
“teacher” in the formal sense).
DESCRIPTION

Members of Group used the “Socratic Method”. The scene began with a question-
and-answer format. The discussion begins with a facilitator asking a general question, or
rather a question that prompts critical thinking in the students, and the facilitator does
not require a correct or incorrect answer, but rather one that provokes contemplation.
When students attempted to answer their teacher's questions, they did so by considering
a variety of experiences and perspectives, rather than simply answering the questions
directly. The stream of questions is repeated until the participants reach an agreement on
the topic that the teacher introduced. They establish an agreement on that particular
topic after a lengthy sequence of questions posed by the teacher herself.

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