Inquiry in Education - The Conceptual Foundations for Research As a Curricular Imperative

Informationen zum Autor Mark W. Aulls, Bruce M. Shore Klappentext 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. It 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. Zusammenfassung Why should inquiry and interest-driven, life-long learning be a curricular imperative, and its presence a criterion for excellent education? This book presents various pedagogical, philosophical, and disciplinary traditions within which evidence and rationale are found for building learning and teaching experiences around inquiry-based curricula. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface. Instruction and Inquiry Instruction. Reflective Practice. Preparing Preservice Teachers to Be Inquirers. The Experienced Teacher and Action Research. Constructivism. Gifted Education and the Research Imperative in Curriculum. Discovery Learning. Inquiry Instruction. Project-Based Inquiry. Inquiry in Social Studies and History. Science and Inquiry. The Treatment of Inquiry as a Curricular Imperative.

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• Authors: Mark W Aulls, Mark W. Aulls, Mark W. (McGill University Aulls, Mark W./ Shore Aulls, Bruce M Shore, Bruce M. Shore, Bruce M. (Mcgill University Shore
• Publisher: Erlbaum
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2007
• EAN: 9780805827415
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-2741-5
• No. of pages: 317
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Educational Psychology (Hardco; Educational Psychology Series; Educational Psychology (Hardco
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries