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DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00773.x
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Socratic Pedagogy: Perplexity, humiliation, shame and a broken egg

Abstract: This article addresses and rebuts the claim that the purpose of the Socratic method is to humiliate, shame, and perplex participants. It clarifies pedagogical and exegetical confusions surrounding the Socratic method, what the Socratic method is, what its epistemological ambitions are, and how the historical Socrates likely viewed it. First, this article explains the Socratic method; second, it clarifies a misunderstanding regarding Socrates' role in intentionally perplexing his interlocutors; third, it discus… Show more

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“…This is not necessarily a negative consequence and is often an important step in the learning process. 18 When students recognize their knowledge gaps, it can spur them to clarify ideas and seek to better understand the concepts.…”
Section: Strategies For Formulating Questions Socratic Methods Questiomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is not necessarily a negative consequence and is often an important step in the learning process. 18 When students recognize their knowledge gaps, it can spur them to clarify ideas and seek to better understand the concepts.…”
Section: Strategies For Formulating Questions Socratic Methods Questiomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Acceptance/rejection of the hypothesis (participants accept or reject the counterexample); 5. Action (acting on the findings of the inquiry) (Boghossian, 2012).…”
Section: Socratic Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In some law schools, the name 'Socratic method' is given to a kind of ritualised bullying in which the professor humiliates one student after another by asking questions until an inadequacy is revealed in the student's preparation of the assigned reading (though contrast Reich, 2003, andBoghossian, 2012). This situation is very different from that of those with whom the historical and the Platonic Socrates conversed.…”
Section: Plato and Womenmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…11 His questions were deployed to force answerers into inconsistency (elenchus), thus exposing their ignorance, numbing them as an electric fish does (Meno 80a, 84b); for a fuller description, see Boghossian (2012). Plato represents Socrates asking questions in this way, rather than speaking didactically from a position of authority, in his elenctic dialogues, specifically the Alcibiades I, Charmides, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Meno, and Protagoras, and also in Book One of the Republic.…”
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confidence: 99%