Plato Images, Aims, and Practices of Education /

• Main Author: Mintz, Avi I. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education,
• Subjects: Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

This book opens by providing the historical context of Plato's engagement with education, including an overview of Plato's life as student and educator. The author organizes his discussion of education in the Platonic Corpus around Plato's images, both the familiar - the cave, the gad...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Plato as Student, Plato as Teacher
• 2. Varieties of Educative Experiences in Classical Greece
• 3. Philosophical Education in the Platonic Corpus
• 4. Plato's Educational Images
• 5. The Socratic Method: Plato's Legacy in Pedagogy
• 6. Higher Education and Plato's Academy in Classical Greece.