1. Inquiry Learning
The notion of teaching students has been responsible for the traditional prescriptive and procedural teaching seen in American schools (Freire, 1970; Macedo, 1994). ... Recognizing that student learning is the goal, learning must neither be viewed as a procedure nor a set of linear steps to be followed so that the long-standing tradition of schools being a " routine empirical affair" can be avoided (Dewey, 1916, p.384). ... As students weave in and out of the inquiry stages, the idea is that they grow and self-monitor through the process; Straits and Russell-Wilke (2002) document that "ref...
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