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Socratic questioning

Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas".…

Psychology, Socratic questioning and critical thinking & Pedagogy

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Pedagogy

Socratic questioning and critical thinking

Psychology

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Socratic questioning

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related to Psychology · 13
Socratic questioning → Adlerian, And, Conceiving, Distancing, Evaluate, Examining, Imagine, Revealing, Socratic, The, What, What's, Why
related to Socratic questioning and critical thinking · 6
Socratic questioning → Critical, John Dewey, Socrates, Socratic, The, This
related to Pedagogy · 5
Socratic questioning → In, It, Socrates, Socratic, When
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Socratic questioning → explicit focus on framing self-directed, form of disciplined questioning that can be used to pursue thought in many directions and for many purposes

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