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Andragogy and the Socratic Method: The Adult Learner Perspective

One of the teaching methods available to teachers in the ‘andragogic’ model of teaching is the method of ‘Socratic Seminars’. This is a teacher-directed form of instruction in which questions are used as the sole method of teaching, placing students in the position of having to recognise the limits of their knowledge, and hopefully, motivating them to learn. This paper aims at initiating the di...

Socratic Trees

We consider the method of Socratic proofs (SP-method). SP-method enables a formal explication of the idea of solving logical problems (i.e problems of entailment/ derivability/ theoremhood) by pure questioning, that is, by transforming the relevant initial question into consecutive questions without making any use of answers to the questions just transformed. Our aim is to give a method of tran...

Socratic Proofs

Running head : STUDY OF THE SOCRATIC METHOD 1

In this study we analyzed 65 fragments of session recordings in which a cognitive behavioral therapist employed the Socratic method with her patients. Specialized coding instruments were used to categorize the verbal behavior of the psychologist and the patients. First the fragments were classified as more or less successful depending on the overall degree of concordance between the client’s ve...

Socratic Learning

Modern machine learning techniques often use discriminative models that require large amounts of labeled data. Since generating labeled training data sets is expensive, an alternative approach is to use a generative model, which leverages a simple heuristic to weakly label data. Domain experts prefer using generative models because they “tell a story” about their data. Unfortunately, generative...