What are Socratic Seminars?
Are lectures in which the teacher asks a specific series of questions to encourage the students to think, rationalize, and discuss the topic.
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What is the Socratic Method?
Is the process of gaining knowledge by carefully questioning and then criticizing the answers.
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What is Schemata?
Are how we organize our knowledge that allows us easy access to memories that haven’t been used for some time.
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What is Reflexive Conditioning?
Is another term for conditioned behavior: behavior that responds to a stimulus that doesn’t normally cause that reflexive response.
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What is Realism?
Is a major school of thought in Educational Philosophy that is the notion that the world exists “because it does.”
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What is Problem-Solving Method?
Is the method developed by John Dewey that deduces that people think to solve problems, and lists the steps used to search for absolute truth. The steps include: recognizing that there is a problem, clearly defining a problem, suggesting possible solutions, considering possible consequences, and observing and experimenting to either
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What is a Philosophy of Education Statement?
Is a written description of what we interpret the best approach to education to be.
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What is Operant Conditioning?
Is a behavior conditioned by reinforcement for performing desired actions rather than causing reflexive behaviors.
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What is Nationalism?
Is a national spirit, a love of one’s country, and the emotional ties to the interests of a nation and the symbols that represent it.
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What is Information Processing?
Refers to how the brain processes information by attending to stimuli and receiving, storing, and retrieving information.
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