Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines: Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools

✍ Scribed by Gillian Kidman,Niranjan Casinader (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 172
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The Unfolding of Inquiry in Education: A Research Chronology (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 3-29
Managing the Reins of Inquiry: The Role of the Teacher in IBL (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 31-45
Differences in Perspective: The Impact of Culture on Inquiry (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 47-62
Front Matter ....Pages 63-63
Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum: Commonalities and Dissonances (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 65-74
Pebbles in a Pond: The Initiation of Inquiry (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 75-88
Through the Looking Glass: The Conduct of Inquiry (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 89-103
Building the Foundation: The Use of Data and Evidence in Inquiry (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 105-118
The Evaluation of Inquiry: The End of the Road? (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 119-127
‘Intelligence in the Wild’—Inquiry in the Field (Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader)....Pages 129-152
Back Matter ....Pages 153-159

✦ Subjects

International and Comparative Education

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