Ann S Pihlgren and Laura Billings
Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 18, Issue S, December 2010
Keywords: Interpersonal processing, seminars, socio-cognitive theory, Socratic dialogue, thinking
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Our work involves close analysis of Socratic dialogue in Sokratiska and Paideia Seminars (Billings and Fitzgerald, 2002; Pihlgren, 2008), grounded in socio-cognitive theory. Similar to Socratic dialogue, The Sokratiska and Paideia Seminars are defined as “a collaborative, intellectual dialogue about ideas and values, based on a text, facilitated by open-ended questions, resulting in enhanced conceptual understanding” (Roberts and Billings, 2008). By examining both quantitative and qualitative aspects of thinking in dialogue, we have found important socio-cognitive patterns. In developing systems for analysis we have identified the following important features:
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