Reflection Of Socratic Dialogue

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Introduction
There is an increasing need for future teachers in the international environment to foster and develop children capability for critical thinking and good ethical values. This group essay will include first-hand personal accounts of the actual experience when facilitating the five philosophical dialogues and reflection would be included to better strengthen the validity of the essay. Furthermore, there is a presentation of each approach strengths as well as limitations in relation to one another so as to give a better insight into how teachers can best handle this topic.
Socratic Dialogue - Minh
Socratic Dialogue, given its name, derived from the famous ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates (c. 470 BCE-c. 399 BCE). Plato (c. 428 BCE-c. 348 BCE), who was Socrates student, recorded many of Socrates rhetorical investigations with other …show more content…

Other contemporary authors such as Rossem (2006), Krohn (2004) and Heckmann (2004) have developed in-depth methodologies and suggestions in order to transform Socratic Dialogue into a cooperative learning activity discussing the topic of philosophy in the classroom.
I decided to facilitate Socratic Dialogue as part of the assignment for the nine other participants that were my fellow students of the same class. I chose the question: “What is justice?” as the focal question for the philosophical conversation. I first began the dialogue by writing clearly the chosen question on the whiteboard. Then I divided the participants into three groups, each consisting 3 people. I gave the first instruction for the groups to brainstorm an initial definition of the term “justice”. This mini groups discussion would last for about 6 minutes. Afterwards, I asked each group if they had come up with an agreeable answer in the form of one sentence to respond to the question. One member representing the group came in front of the board and wrote down the initial answer. I started the next step, which was to investigate the claims

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