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ERIC Number: EJ373378
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Teaching Students to Examine Their Lives.
Sweers, Carolyn J.
Educational Leadership, v45 n8 p20-22 May 1988
Genuine Socratic questioning challenges students to think critically about their behavior and beliefs. This article presents a two-step teaching process that involves a prereading exercise using students' life experiences and a method allowing the textbook to function Socratically. Examples are given from the text of "Crito." Includes one reference. (MLH)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluative Thinking, Instructional Innovation, Questioning Techniques
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Socrates