Socratic Dialogue as A Teaching Method: Sergei Eisenstein; СОКРАТИЧЕСКИЙ ДИАЛОГ КАК УЧЕБНЫЙ МЕТОД СЕРГЕЙ ЭЙЗЕНШТЕЙН

Sergei Eisenstein became an innovative teacher, having developed the first curriculum for training film directors "Granite of Science" (1933) and having started teaching students at the State Institute of Cinematography. The novelty of the research undertaken is determined by the first scientific understanding of Eisenstein's pedagogical method. He practiced Socratic dialogue as a method of teaching film directing. The relevance of the study is associated with two main factors: firstly, in general terms, the article presents new material in the mainstream of the dialogue of times, the demand for previous cultural experience in the practices of the 20th-21st centuries, and secondly, the study of one of the methods of humanistic pedagogy can be extrapolated to other subject areas in which the true solution is not axiomatic. The article thematically consists of two parts: the first gives an idea of the Socratic method, defines its mechanisms, functions, structure. The second, based on a specific lecture by Eisenstein given at the State Institute of Cinematography in the 1933-1934 academic year, analyzes the use of the Socratic method in organizing dialogue between a teacher and students. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.