Teaching Psychology and the Socratic Method Real Knowledge in a Virtual Age /

• Main Author: Dillon, James J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Sociology > Research.; Psychology, Experimental.; Pedagogic Psychology.; Classical Philosophy.; Educational Psychology.; Experimental Psychology.; Research Methodology.

This book presents a lively and accessible way to use the ancient figure of Socrates to teach modern psychology that avoids the didactic lecture and sterile textbook. In the online age, is a living teacher even needed? What can college students learn face-to-face from a teacher they cannot learn any...