Inquiry in Education, Volume I
The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative
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Inquiry in Education, Volume I
The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative
About this book
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 to learn more about how to use inquiry in their own practice.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Authors
- 1 Instruction and Inquiry Instruction
- 2 Reflective Practice
- 3 Preparing Preservice Teachers to Be Inquirers
- 4 The Experienced Teacher and Action Research
- 5 Constructivism
- 6 Gifted Education and the Research Imperative in Curriculum
- 7 Discovery Learning
- 8 Inquiry Instruction
- 9 Project-Based Inquiry
- 10 Inquiry in Social Studies and History
- 11 Science and Inquiry
- 12 Conclusion: The Treatment of Inquiry as a Curricular Imperative
- Author Index
- Subject Index