Pedagogical persuasion: Exploring its utilization in Secondary education


Konstantinos Sofronidis
Konstantinos Diamandis
Abstract

The relationship between persuasion and teaching has been studied for several decades. Many researchers have argued that persuasion, in a positive sense, appears to be inherent in teaching practice and that effective learning may be difficult to achieve in the absence of persuasion. There are also researchers who propose 'teaching as persuasion' as an alternative approach to teaching, in which educators are encouraged to use persuasion principles to achieve multiple educational goals. In the context of this approach, the first aim of this study was to identify scientifically proven principles of persuasion in literature. The second aim was to investigate which of these principles were most frequently used in the classroom and whether there were any differences in their use according to the demographics of the teachers. From the analysis of the results, a positive attitude of teachers towards the use of persuasion emerged and a positive aspect of persuasion and its multiple roles in the teaching process was acknowledged.

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