Introduction to this Issue: the Betzavta Method and Democracy – On an Experimental Project in Academic Didactics of Philosophy

• Authors: Dobrzański, Michał

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the background of the texts included in this issue of SGEGE that resulted from an experimental workshop on democracy. The didactic innovation implemented during the event consisted in enhancing the traditional forms of teaching philosophy (seminar and lecture) with a practical module based on the Betzavta methodology of democratic education. In the first part of the article, a general description of the project is provided. Then follows a presentation of its topic, the reasons for choosing it and the theoretical problems behind it. Next, the organization and methodology of the project are briefly described. In the end, the results of the project are presented together with a short summary of the texts of this volume of the journal.

Keywords

EN

philosophical methodology; didactics of philosophy; didactic experiment; education; decision-making; social philosophy; philosophy of politics; democracy; Betzavta

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 10
• Pages: 3-16

Dates

published

2019-06-18

Contributors

author

Dobrzański, Michał

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2503