ABC OF INQUIRY – MINDSET ABC OF INQUIRY – MINDSET “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.“ SirJohn Lubbock MINDSET: Is there more to consider? Carol Dweck’s work … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – KNOWLEDGE
ABC OF INQUIRY – KNOWLEDGE ABC OF INQUIRY – KNOWLEDGE ‘We [need to] challenge the concept of static knowledge, replacing it with developing or evolving knowledges that tolerate an ongoing relationship to, and exploration of, what is known and what is not known.’ The Heart’s Narrative: Johnella Bird. KNOWLEDGE: The story of the Known Knowledge is a fascinating idea that could … Read More
ABC of INQUIRY – HOMOGENOUS GROUPING
ABC of INQUIRY – HOMOGENOUS GROUPING ABC of INQUIRY – HOMOGENOUS GROUPING ‘I looked at the horses and wondered how long it would be before they would be swept away and replaced with a McDonalds or television. And whether the Indian genius was strong enough to resist the homogenising and stupefying principle which has come to dominate the modern world, … Read More
ABC of INQUIRY – EXPERT
ABC of INQUIRY – EXPERT ABC of INQUIRY EXPERT “We know what we think; we think we know what we do; but do we know what we do does?”M. Foucault EXPERT: To be or to know… Looking at the idea of expert might usefully be done using BCW’s DIG model D -Describe what you see: Academic qualifications, awards, published … Read More
ABC of INQUIRY – ESSENTIAL AGREEMENT
ABC of INQUIRY – ESSENTIAL AGREEMENT “To Foucault, language is an instrument of power, and people have power in a society in direct proportion to their ability to participate in the various discourses that shape that society.”Freedman and Combs ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS: Co-constructing a constitution… Essential agreements are like collaboratively constructed learning community constitutions. They can be a tool based in … Read More
ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING
ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING ABC of INQUIRY – DEDUCTIVE TEACHING “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson DEDUCTIVE TEACHING: Follow the leader… Deductive teaching involves the teacher being positioned as the expert, the leader, the centre of the learning. Ideas, information or rules are delivered to … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION
ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION ABC OF INQUIRY – DIFFERENTIATION “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”– E. E. Cummings DIFFERENTIATION: To be yourself… Differentiation is about valuing and … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING
ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING ABC OF INQUIRY – DEEPER LEARNING “…and their minds were opened and their imagination’s stirred, and they saw wonderful things in their secret selves that few of them had ever dreamed of….”– River Murray Mary Colin Theile DEEPER LEARNING: Digging deeper… Deeper learning has occurred when a learner understands an idea or skill so thoroughly … Read More
ABC OF INQUIRY – CHOICE
ABC OF INQUIRY – CHOICE ABC OF INQUIRY – CHOICE “Problems develop when people internalize conversations that restrain them to a narrow description of self. These stories are experienced as oppressive because they limit the perception of available choices.” This Kathleen S.G. Skott- Myhre quote sums up how all people in all communities need safe places and trusted people to help them … Read More