Socrates (470-399) B.C
Theory: Knowledge is the ethically and morally important to all men (Webb, 2010, p. 121).
Classroom Engagement: Socrates theory has integrated into current classroom engagements because he focused more so on the involvement and interaction with students. He gained understanding of their expectations and transitioned those things into engaging more with the students. This technique of understanding and getting involved with the students has been integrated into current classroom engagements today because teachers have to involve themselves into assisting the students as much as possible in the class.
Teaching and Learning: Socrates skills of teaching have integrated into current practices through a method in which dialectical teaching was involved, commonly used today. This teaching method made it simple for students to understand and learn through dialect. Carefully listening and learning from the teacher through experimental and consequential questioning and responses. Socrates involved himself with more of the student, increasing learning skills through ideas and concepts. Through a questioning process based on a student’s experiences and analyzing the consequences of responses led the students to a better understanding of the problem (Webb, 2010, p.121).
Parent or Community Involvement: Community involvement has also been integrated by Socrates teaching because he believed that education was a great asset of knowledge and reasoning to every individual. He believed that society and education needed to be closely related to maintain power and with this belief community involvement for education as of today is remaining strong.
Student Social or Emotional Support: Socrates incorporated student social ...
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...ducators to help enhance his educational contributions. This allowed community involvement. He also made it a legal mandate that parents needed to be involved in their children’s education (Webb, 2010, p.128). By doing this it allows the educational process of the teacher and student to be simple. This theory has integrated into current education in both the involvement of educational leaders to help improve learning and the involvement of parents taking the time to interact in their child (ren) education stills exist.
Student Social or Emotional Support: Calvin’s representation of the importance of education led me to perceive that the social and emotional support of the students was placed as priority. Calvin’s engagement with making the learning process easier gives me the assumption that the support of the students is just as important to him as it is today.
Engagement in classroom discussions influences positive engagement in the workplace by allowing the individual to be more social and attentive when put in the environment, and to also makes the environment a great place to work. The first thing everyone learns is listening and acknowledging what you have learned which is used in any setting. Classroom engagement can help develop someone’s communication skills, time management and self awareness. Being in the classroom teaches you how to communicate with people, and speak to people positively. This type of
...d of the students to work. The mind will be given concepts to engage with so that it will become engrained in the students for life. The subjects will become useful to the students because of what they have learned through reading and writing combined with the instruction of their teachers, who do not make them only read and write, but also give the students time to discuss and struggle with the various subjects. This is what Socrates and Phaedrus were doing, and of this is what excellent education consists.
31) The influence of Socrates had on the youth of Athens, is that he taught the youth to become dedicated to the philosophy, and what it taught them. He also influenced the youth to use his "Socratic method" to create and understand a deeper understanding.
It is obvious that education, whether classroom instruction or practical drill, advice or entreaty, must ensure that students are positively involved, that they at least listen and pay attention to the words, actions, and the thoughts of their educators, instead of drifting off or doing something else, or simply leaving to try to learn what they need on their own (Prange 74).
Socrates is as a person who is profoundly wise, a person who has understood planes of reality far higher than what is understood by most people. He is depicted as one who has been outside the cave and who is no longer imprisoned by the illusions of the ordinary world. He is depicted as a skilled communicator who can ask people to question and examine even their most cherished assumptions. The Socratic Method is based on a dialogue between two or more people who may hold differing views, but wish to pursue the truth by seeking agreement with one another, Socrates used it quite differently in that he believed that knowledge was instinctive and could be brought out by means of skillful questioning. In many ways, Socrates resembled the Sophists.
Socrates was a man that was always learning. Even though he had taught many students in his lifetime, he himself viewed himself as a student. In Euthyphro, Socrates converses with Euthyphro and continuously asks him to establish the meaning of impiety and piety (Plato 6). Although Socrates is the teacher, he learns from
As a youth Socrates was the pupil of Archelaus and studied scientific theories of Anaxagoras. Later in life Socrates abandoned physical studies and focused on the building of moral character. He believed that to do wrong is to damage the soul and that it is worse to do wrong than to be wronged, so you should never do wrong to right a wrong.
Socrates established the fact that one cannot depend upon those in “authority” to have sound knowledge and insight…He established the importance of seeking evidence, closely examining reasoning and assumptions, analysing basic concepts, and tracing out implications not only of what is said but of what is done as well. (The Critical Thinking Community 2009 online)
Socrates, which is synonymous with wisdom and the philosophical life, was a teacher without a school. His goal was to help others find the truths that lie within their own minds. He helped his students reach deeper, clearer ideas by questioning, disproving, and testing the thoughts of his pupils. His teachings offended many of the powerful people of his time. They believed he was corrupting the youth in Athens. Since he believed and taught in this way, he was executed.
In book 3, Socrates begins a very interesting perspective on the importance of education. Many times throughout the story does Socrates suggest that education can either be random or done with purpose. In fact, it is mentioned that education can be key to the problems that plague society. However, education is beyond the idea of what schools and high level education can teach. One of the best ways that education can be used is for the guardians, to curve the natural tendencies of taking complete control over the citizens. Education can be used to shape the characters of not only the guardians, or those in charge, or others in the community in a better way. “The Idea of the Good—in light of which the soul’s good may be discerned, and by which all things become useful and beneficial—is thus not only the “greatest study” but also the one most indispensable to the welfare of human beings. In addition, it is the study to which philosophers are inevitably drawn by their love of the spectacle of truth, since the Ideas themselves cannot be adequately known without knowledge of the Good,” (Howland). Education, as discussed by Jacob Howland directly relates to the good in people and shaping the characters of people. Socrates also discusses this further in book 4, “"The desires of the worthless many are controlled by the desires and knowledge of the decent few,” (Pg. 98). Once again, this quote relates back to the idea that education leads to the decency in people and better
Socrates was a greek philosopher that lived from four-hundred-sixty-nine BCE to three-hundred-ninety-nine BCE. He is one of the most influential Greek philosophers. He created the socratic method which, is a method of thinking where a person asks a question in a circle. After the question is posed the rest of the circle goes around one by one answering the question. The way it works is it breaks big problems down into small and answerable questions. A key aspect of the method is the idea that there are no wrong ideas and all answers are accepted. This method causes people to think harder and more critically about the questions being asked. The questions must be more than a yes or no question. They must be a question that evokes thought and takes explaining to answer.
Parental involvement promotes the social growth of a child. Children whose parents are involved in their education have many advantages. They have better grades, test scores, long-term academic achievement, attitudes and behavior than those with disinterested mothers and fathers (Gestwicki, 2001). Parents becoming involved in their child's schooling creates extra sources of social constraint to influence the child's behavior (McNeal, 2001). For example, parents talking to their children and becoming involved in the school conveys a message to the child of education being important. Parents should be talking with your children's teacher and letting her know about your family. The more she knows about your child, the better she will be able to connect with your child.
One of Socrates’ favorite students was Plato. Cross agrees, saying, “Plato (437-347) was Socrates’ prized student.” The thing Plato did was magnificent, he was always questioning Socrates in his teaching because he knew that’s what was expected of him. If we fast forward to modern day teachers, or professors, they are always assumed to be correct and have the highest level of knowledge and wisdom (all the while teaching about Socrates.) This is completely obscene because their teaching method is to not have students question their ideas, but that their ideas are solid, correct, and unwavering. Socrates would highly disagree with this idea. The amazing philosopher so many people refer to, Plato and Socrates both are advocates of students questioning what they learn so they do not become daft robots. Yet in modern day society, many are taught to accept what their professors and teachers say as the cold hard truth that shan’t be
A lot of children have two main educators in their life; their parents and their teachers. Parents are their first educators, the majority of what a child learns in the first few years of their life is taught by their parents. It is only when the child starts to attend an early years setting that they start to learn from another educator. Both parents and teachers continue being a major influence on their children's learning all throughout school and for the rest of their lives. The parents and the child's school both have important roles to play in the child's education and should therefore work together as a team. Parents can get involved in many different ways such as; getting involved with the school itself by helping in the classroom or supervising lunch and break times, or for those parents who work in the day and cannot find the time to help at the school they can get involved by; reading to their child at home, assisting with homework and other learning activities, teaching them songs or nursery rhymes and letting them help with everyday tasks like cooking, baking and chores. This can be categorised as: Involvement of parents in the school life or involvement of parents in supporting the individual child at home.
Aristotle was and is a very influential figure when it comes to educational practices and process as well as philosophy, ethics, and many other subjects. Many of his teachings and lectures shape the way we are taught and learn today. He comes from a long line of recognizable names when considering influential figures in Educational Philosophy. Although this analysis is focused on his contributions to education, it is important to note that he showed influence in a variety of concepts.