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What is Inquiry Pedagogy?

 

In the model of open-inquiry, let me pose the following questions to you:

  • What does inquiry mean to you?
  • How have you or how would you like to use inquiry-based education in your classroom?
  • What other classroom issues, stratagies or pedogogy are you interested in?

 

 

 

Some other thoughts on inquiry in science and beyond.

Notes on Inquiry Institute 2009

 

This page is under construction.

 

Trajectory of Seminar/The Story

Assumptions:

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Spring and/or the Cosmic Clock

Spring is clearly here, even in the Tropics of Guatemala. 

We have a 5-6 month (May to October) rainy season and a 6-7 month (October to May) dry season.  But in fact the dry season is two very distinct periods: a dry winter season with cold waves from the arctic and beginning about 1 March warm humid nights with increasing humidity and oppressive atmosphere until the rains break in May (a typical pre-monsoon season).  But Spring begins before any changes in the weather.  Spring everywhere begins before any change in the weather could seem to trigger it.

Empowering Learners: A Handbook for the Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching

Introduction, Alice Lesnick, Senior Lecturer and Acting Director, Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program
An explanation of the purposes, premises, and creation of this handbook.

We dedicate this book to our students with gratitude for all they teach us.

 

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Language and Mind: Assessing Chomsky through a Neurobiological Lens

In his seminal work Language and Mind world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky discusses the development of language. In a series of telling essays and lectures he presents the linguistic contributions to past, present, and future studies of the mind and details the distinctive nature of language. Combining concepts from biology and psychology he attempts to trace the origin of language, all the while analyzing what these origins imply about the nature of the brain. One Chomskyan theory of particular interest deals with language acquisition and is labeled "Universal Grammar" (Chomsky 99)1. In the following paragraphs I will present and discuss this theory and attempt to situate it with the neurobiological conclusions reached by our class this semester.
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Finding IT: Creativity and the Flow State

"All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows its not the tune that counts but IT." -from On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1)
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Flowers for Algernon: Powers of our Brain

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God In The Brain And The God Outside of It

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