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Dancing in the Light
This book tells several stories. The first is a teacher's journey to discover a different way of teaching and learning. The second is a summary of the theory used to explain and justify the change in pedagogy to the wider school community. The third are stories from student and teachers who practice inquiry learning. The result is a description of 6 essential elements for a successful inquiry learning environment.
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The Essentials
What are the essential elements that make an inquiry classroom successful? Do these essentials apply to teachers, students or are they shared by both? Chapter 2 and 3 looked for those essentials in the research around education theory and practice. Chapter 4 and 5 reported on what teachers and students thought about inquiry. In the end, I have synthesised six essential elements for an inquiry classroom: (i) discussion with its greater implications of discourse (ii) social mediation of learning (iii) the importance of planning (iv)valuing uncertainty (v) reflection ~ action and (vi) respect.
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What’s Essential? Students’ Perspectives on Inquiry
Anna, a year 10 student, offered this definition of inquiry learning: I think inquiry learning keeps it very ... like respectful and very understanding about what we as a person want to learn rather than ... They don't look at us just as a whole group they look at all of us individually and that's why it works so well here’ cos everybody can learn at their own sort of rate and with what they are better at and what they're not as good at.
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Dancing Spirals ~ Sustainable Education ~ Curriculum Theory
I came back to Australia after teaching oveseas looking for the opportunity to develop my understanding of inquiry learning. However, my new principal initially had other plans. He wanted a curriculum developed with the Earth Charter and Sustainability as the basis of teaching and learning. I had to confess that in the years away from Australia, I had become somewhat disillusioned with environmental education. I recall sitting near a feight port in SE Asia watching containers of used plastic bags between dumped in the ocean.
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Looking at Inquiry
For 15 years, I was a conservative, subject oriented, exam focussed secondary school teacher. Text books and test banks were great. Parents liked me for discipline, organisation and good exam results. Administrators liked me because marks were always recorded on time and students fit the standardised curve with perhaps a slight skew to the right.
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