Screen LibraryInquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines : Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools /
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 a...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53463-7 |
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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. Three frameworks, which are argued to be necessarily intertwined for discipline-specific literacy, guide this inquiry work: the classroom go |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XXII, 159 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781137534637 |
| Index Number: | LB43 |
| CLC: | G51 |
| Contents: | PART I -- Chapter 1. The Unfolding of Inquiry in Education: A Research Chronology -- Chapter 2. Managing the Reins of Inquiry: The Role of the Teacher in IBL -- Chapter 3. Differences in Perspective: The Impact of Culture on Inquiry -- PART II -- Chapter 4. Inquiry in the Australian Curriculum: Commonalities and Dissonances -- Chapter 5. Pebbles in a Pond: The Initiation of Inquiry -- Chapter 6. Through the Looking Glass: The Conduct of Inquiry -- Chapter 7. Building the Foundation: The Use of Data and Evidence in Inquiry -- Chapter 8. The Evaluation of Inquiry: The End of the Road? -- Chapt |