Inquiry in Education Volume I

<p>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?<br><br>To answer these urgent questions this book<br>*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 <br>*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.<br><br><i>Inquiry in Education Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative</i> 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. <i>Inquiry in Education Volume II: Overcoming Barriers to Successful Implementation</i> 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?<br><br><i>Inquiry in Education Volume I </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.</p>