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Socratic Questioning

Socrates believed that the highest form of human excellence is questioning oneself and others. Socratic questioning involves a disciplined dialogue where open-ended questions are asked to promote critical thinking. It allows people to examine issues in depth and review important ideas. While it enhances learning and listening skills, some disadvantages include a potential high failure rate without participation and a loss of interest.

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Socratic Questioning

Socrates believed that the highest form of human excellence is questioning oneself and others. Socratic questioning involves a disciplined dialogue where open-ended questions are asked to promote critical thinking. It allows people to examine issues in depth and review important ideas. While it enhances learning and listening skills, some disadvantages include a potential high failure rate without participation and a loss of interest.

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SOCRATES QUESTIONING-

“I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.”
Socrates

AS A WAY OF
FACILITATION

Savita G Rao
What is Socrates Questioning?

• Socratic questioning involves a disciplined and thoughtful dialogue between two or more
people.
Adaptation of Paul's classification of the Six Types of Socratic Questions [24]
ADVANTAGES
DISADVANTAGES
• Gaining active learning and listening skills • Easy failure rate without student
• Promotion of critical thinking skills participation
• A fear of public speaking is common
• Learning how to be challenged and what
to do when challenged • Loss of interest possible when a professor
is speaking with an individual student
• Discovering how to examine issues in-
depth • There is often no right answer (some
students dislike this)
• Provide a way to review, restate,
emphasize, and/or summarize what is • It’s sometimes difficult to handle the
important. multiple responses for a given question
DO’S DON’TS

• Ask a single question. • Avoid vague, ambiguous, or beyond the


• Be clear and concise in your question. level of the listener’s understanding.

• Participate in the dialogue. • Do not answer questions, rephrase them.

• ‘I don’t know’ is an acceptable answer. • Do not give elaborate explanations.

• Pose open questions rather than yes/no • Do not .be a ‘sage on the stage’.
questions. • Do not use jargons.
WHERE CAN WE USE SOCRATIC
QUESTIONING?
• It is widely used in teaching and counseling to expose and unravel deeply held
values and beliefs that frame and support what we think and say.
• Used in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to encourage behaviour modification.
• It can be used in exploring philosophical subjects and humanities.

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