The reason that the students engage in the process is due to the question(s) posed and the amount of background knowledge that the students possess; students do not engage in the process because it is in itself an activity (Geahigan, 1998a; Geahigan 1998b). ... The inquiry-based process in which students engage has six stages through which students negotiate (See Figure A). ... And inquiry is unique because it allows "teachers and students [to] enter a process of social construction of knowledge that encourages critique, diversity"-and meaning making" (Fecho, 2000). ... Diaries are the m...

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There are six basic characteristics that interest this age group of students: 1. ... By encouraging these associations we need to embed the material they are being taught with heroic characteristics, showing them the "hidden heroic journey" in everyday things. ... Teachers must focus on the distant, the strange, the exotic first to engage the student's imagination, and then we can enrich the meaning of what is already familiar to our students. ... Our students start feeling the injustices of our reality. ... When we get the imaginations of our students working, we are getting them inv...

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Schools that neglect to impart this core knowledge leave their students seriously deprived and our democracy weakened. ... Intensive study encourages a fully developed understanding of a subject, making one's knowledge of it integrated and coherent. ... On the first diagnosis, Hirsch's diagnosis, what students lack is shared information. On the second diagnosis, the one I prefer, students lack precisely what Hirsch fails to offer them "a theory of cultural literacy as contributing. ... Once students nourish this vision of themselves, they also have the incentive to fill in w...

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