Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning across Disciplines: Comparative Theory and Practice in Schools - Hardcover

Kidman, Gillian; Casinader, Niranjan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137534621 ISBN 13: 9781137534620

Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, 2017

Synopsis

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 goals; the instructional approach; and the degree of teacher direction. The foundation of the analysis is the notion of educational inquiry as it is structured in the Australian Curriculum, along with the locating of the study in international trends in inquiry learning over time. It will be of great interest to researchers, higher degree students and practicing professionals working in Education and Sociology. 

About this title

About the Author

Gillian Kidman is Associate Professor in Science Education, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

 

Niranjan Casinader is Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Assessment, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia.

From the Back Cover

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 goals; the instructional approach; and the degree of teacher direction. The foundation of the analysis is the notion of educational inquiry as it is structured in the Australian Curriculum, along with the locating of the study in international trends in inquiry learning over time. It will be of great interest to researchers, higher degree students and practicing professionalsworking in Education and Sociology. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137534621
• ISBN 13: 9781137534620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181