EDUC 6470 Week 5

From our syllabus: "What is the teacher's role in an inquiry-based classroom? What are the challenges?"

Readings

Druger (2006)<bibref>Druger

2006</bibref>

How can I possibly read this without bias against the author after having read his diatribe against students from 2002?<bibref>Druger:2002</bibref>

Druger lists vocabulary as the base of subject matter competency. That there is such a base for learning is questionable, learning, to me, being a complex network of experiences and interpretations and expressions. That vocabulary must come first is also questionable, because it demotes experience to something that can't be learnable without a vocabulary for expression. Such a view of the basis of learning is prevalent perhaps because it is reinforced by our methods of assessing learning, through vocabulary-based checks on expression, rather than evaluating experience or performance.

Pestel (2002)<bibref>Pestel

2002</bibref>

Keys & Bryan (2001)<bibref>Keys

2001</bibref>

Crawford (2000)<bibref>Crawford:2000</bibref>

References

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