Inquiry-based Teaching And Learning Across Disciplines: Comparative Theory And Practice In Schools
by Niranjan Casinader /
2017 / English / PDF
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This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and
nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools,
challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it
explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of
inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography and History
disciplines, as well as focusing on the importance of the role of
teacher in what is frequently criticised as being a
student-controlled activity.
This research-based book dissects and explores the meaning and
nature of Inquiry in teaching and learning in schools,
challenging existing concepts and practices. In particular, it
explores and contests prevailing attitudes about the practice of
inquiry-based learning across the Science, Geography and History
disciplines, as well as focusing on the importance of the role of
teacher in what is frequently criticised as being a
student-controlled activity.
Three frameworks, which are argued to be necessarily intertwined
for discipline-specific literacy, guide this inquiry work: the
classroom goals; the instructional approach; and the degree of
teacher direction. The foundation of the analysis is the notion
of educational inquiry as it is structured in the Australian
Curriculum, along with the locating of the study in international
trends in inquiry learning over time. It will be of great
interest to researchers, higher degree students and practicing
professionals working in Education and Sociology.
Three frameworks, which are argued to be necessarily intertwined
for discipline-specific literacy, guide this inquiry work: the
classroom goals; the instructional approach; and the degree of
teacher direction. The foundation of the analysis is the notion
of educational inquiry as it is structured in the Australian
Curriculum, along with the locating of the study in international
trends in inquiry learning over time. It will be of great
interest to researchers, higher degree students and practicing
professionals working in Education and Sociology.
