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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"socratic"”.
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Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades
… For this reason we have titled the dissertation Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades, with each chapter designed to facilitate a kind of cross-fertilization of ideas from a variety of intellectual perspectives. Looking at the dialogue from various perspectives has allowed us to cast some new …
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Increasing Reading Comprehension Through Socratic Seminars
<p>Socratic Seminar is a discussion-based instructional strategy that aims to improve students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension skills. This strategy supports comprehension by encouraging students to answer textual-based questions with textual evidence and engage in providing multiple …
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Socratic Ethics in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Republic
This dissertation analyzes Socratic ethics in three Platonic dialogues: the Protagoras, the Gorgias, and the Republic. The purpose is twofold: 1) to question the standard view that what is the defining characteristic of Socratic ethics in the Protagoras and the Gorgias is its intellectualism and …
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Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account
… Socrates and this dissertation offers a Socratic answer to them. In Chapter 1 ("Virtue as Expert Moral Knowledge") I develop and defend a novel interpretation of the Socratic thesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge. I argue that the relevant kind of knowledge of interest to Socrates is …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
<p>If one were to look for a Platonic definition of a sophist, it would seem that there could be no better place than Plato’s <em>Sophist</em>, in which the Stranger and Theaetetus lay out a series of definitions in an attempt to articulate what makes a sophist. The Stranger’s definition of a …
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Music in Reality The relation of music, emotion and Pre-Socratic myth
… numerous fragmented references appear in the pre-Socratic sources. The notion that harmonia mundi originated as an idea of quantitative speeds and distances of the celestial bodies, is discredited. Rather, it is shown that it more probably originates as an expression of an 'esoteric spiritual' …
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Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
… I investigate the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology, an epistemological theory that takes the egocentric good reasons question as primary. I argue that the Sellars problem forces one to abandon the foundationalist project for empirical justification. In the place of …
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Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship
This dissertation evaluates the appropriateness of using Socrates as a model for contemporary citizenship. I examine the question of Socrates' civic character by inquiring about the relation of the philosopher (or political scientist) to the city (that is, to political life) without taking for …
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Examining the Nature of Socratic Citizenship: An Inquiry Into the Voegelinian Conception of Consciousness
<p>This thesis explores Socrates as the paradigmatic citizen through Eric Voegelin’s theory of consciousness. While scholars tend to ground the source of Socrates’ civic behavior in the self, I maintain that his<em> daimonion</em> is the very essence of his citizenship. Illustrating that spiritual …
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"Socratic Circles are a Luxury": Exploring the Conceptualization of a Dialogic Tool in Three Science Classrooms
… years by testing policies requiring coverage. Socratic Circles are a framework for student-led dialogic discourse, which have been successfully used in English language arts and Social studies classrooms. The purpose of this research was to explore the implementation process of Socratic Circles …
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Design and Development of a Socratic Intelligent Tutoring System: Leveraging Agentic AI for Asynchronous Online Learning
… that does exactly that. The tool uses the Socratic method, an ancient teaching approach where learning happens through questioning rather than lecturing, to have a conversation with the student in a casual text-based exchange. The study was based in a longstanding educational challenge: how …
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A study of university teacher–student relationships from the perspective of trust: a Socratic and Confucian comparison
Confucian and Socratic schools of thought are famously noted as the foundations of Eastern and Western education systems. Confucianism emphasizes the importance of discipline and teacher’s authority; Socratic methods of teaching highly values critical thinking and the power of questioning. …
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Thinking Beyond the Text: Examining Teachers’ Dispositions of Critical Thinking in Elementary Social Studies Classrooms Through the Use of Socratic Seminars
… world, the voices of students is crucial. Socratic Seminar is a classroom methodology that can foster critical thinking skills and cultivate a democratic learning environment. The purpose of this participatory action research study is to examine teachers’ dispositions of critical thinking …
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The use of the Socratic method in a contemporary high school classroom in developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision making skills
… was to attempt to use a modified approach to the Socratic method in a contemporary high school classroom as a means of developing problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills in high school students. The participants in the study were 16 male students and 13 female students from …
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Exploring the potential of mind joy as a Generative AI socratic tutor: fostering 21st-century skills in the general education certificate mathematics curriculum
… the feasibility and potential of Mindjoy, a Socratic generative AI-enabled tutor, within the GEC Mathematics curriculum for Grade 9 learners. The focus was on understanding its impact in fostering key 21st-century skills: collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. This qualitative …
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Grounding reason : Socratic dialectic in Aristotle's "Topics" and Plato's "Hipparchus", "Minos", and "Lovers".
… share considerable common ground concerning Socratic dialectic. That is, both think that the critical examination of everyday opinions about what is choiceworthy (e.g., the good, the just, and the noble) has a momentous role to play in the grounding of science and the confirming of the …
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Making the examined life worth living: The ethics of being a liberal educator
… conception of liberal education today, or the “Socratic ideal of liberal education,” which is rooted in the ideal of the examined life and has as its core practice the critical examination of the beliefs that shape one’s life and world. This practice is thought to enable students to reconstruct …
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Metaphorical Interpretation: Measuring and Facilitating Growth.
… and the posttest. The treatment group was given Socratic lessons and direct instruction on metaphorical thought and expressions during 1 semester and in conjunction with their other classroom material. The pretest scores (TOLD, Peabody, preproverbs concrete, and preproverbs abstract) did not …
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