Socratic questions and frozen shoulders: teaching without telling

Teaching Ethics to Engineers: A Socratic Experience

In this paper we present the authors' experience of teaching a course in Ethics for Engineers, which has been delivered four times in three different universities in Spain and Chile. We begin by presenting the material context of the course (its place within the university program, the number of students attending, its duration, etc.), and especially the intellectual background of the participa...

MENON: automating a Socratic teaching model for mathematical proofs

Adaptive teaching strategies that take the needs of different learners into account are a prerequisite for successful intelligent tutoring systems. They should ideally incorporate elements of all facets of teaching that together are responsible for learning. One such facet is natural language tutorial dialogue, which is crucial to the application of teaching strategies by human teachers. Althou...

Using the Socratic method in office-based teaching.

(Fam Med 2004;36(3):162-3.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, Douglas Lewis, MD, discusses how the Socratic method can be used in office-based teaching to help the learner gain new knowledge. Dr Lewis is the associate director of the Via Christi Family Practice Residency in Wichita, Kan. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.or...

Clinical Pathology Teaching in Laboratory by Socratic Method

Introduction: In recent decades, a variety of teaching methods has been offered for teaching different fields of science, but the old method of questions and answer is still popular and in use. This teaching method, generally applicable to small groups, is based on questioning and finding answers by students which can increase active learning. This study evaluated students' viewpoints toward cl...

Teaching with questions.