Inquiry-based Learning: A Guidebook to Writing a Science Opera

The educational world is experiencing exciting yet tension-filled times. We all wish to strengthen and support creativity and creative teaching in schools. Yet recent debates about what “creativity” means, and how it should be implemented, raise the need for more specific approaches. Write a Science Opera (WASO) is one such approach. WASO is a transdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach to teaching at the intersection of art and science in schools. It is all about creative teaching and teaching for creativity.

Inquiry-Based Learning: A Guidebook to Writing a Science Opera provides teachers with the reasons for, and advantages of, introducing pupils of all ages to WASO. It provides step-by-step instructions for how to implement WASO in classrooms. WASO is challenging, but the rewards are powerful: In WASO, it is the pupils’ curiosity and creative imagination which develop their science and art curriculum.

Get ready for an exciting, creative journey …

Irma Smegen is a drama, kindergarten and elementary school teacher. She is the author of educational books and provides inspirational training courses for teachers, both of which she realizes in the framework of her company, “Speel je Wijs”. Playful learning is always the main ingredient in her work.
Oded Ben-Horin is an Associate Professor of Music and the Head of Department of Arts Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. He is the initiator of Write a Science Opera (WASO). He coordinates the Global Science Opera (GSO).