Why should inquiry--the engine for independent, curiosity- and
interest-driven, life-long learning--be a curricular imperative,
and its presence a criterion for excellent education? Is it
possible to teach inquiry skills systematically and to engage
learners in being inquirers across elementary, secondary, and
post-secondary schooling?
To answer these urgent questions, this book
*pulls together more than four decades of expert opinion,
quantitative research, and qualitative research on inquiry in
different disciplines, school subjects, and levels of education;
and
*presents a dozen different pedagogical, philosophical, and
disciplinary traditions within which evidence and rationale are
found for building learning and teaching experiences around
inquiry-based curricula.
"Inquiry in Education, Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for
Research as a Curricular Imperative" is the first book to gather
all these sources together, to build a cross-disciplinary case for
inquiry as the central core of sound curriculum design, and to
offer an organized interpretation of this large body of knowledge
from a variety of perspectives and for different educational
purposes. A companion volume, Shore, Aulls, & Delcourt, Eds.,
"Inquiry in Education, Volume II: Overcoming Barriers to Successful
Implementation," focuses on a corollary question: If inquiry is
such a good thing, why is it not universal practice? What barriers
stand in the way, and how can teachers overcome them?
"Inquiry in Education, Volume I" is intended for scholars, faculty,
and students of education, and for practitioners at all levels of
schooling who support inquiry-oriented reforms in education and who
want tolearn more about how to use inquiry in their own practice.
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