Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:40:24 +1000 (EST)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:40:24 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: ITS/Ethnographic Film
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> Chris Elliot's post:
> A slightly different take on it would be to use an inquiry-based learning
> approach, where the learner is focused on a question and must form his or
> her own theory based on his/her or a team's observations.
While I do like the notion of inquiry, what always worries me is the
source, the function and the place of the question which is to stimulate
such learning. Inquiry-based means:
(a) a learning which causes questions
(b) a learning which focuses on finding answers. However, what is the
relationship between the questions posed for that purpose and all
the answers that students come up with during, say, a semester?
How can it be ensured that generalisation will take place of a kind
that facilitate innovative thinking??
I think that the question pose in (b) is important because before we find
a method which will claim facilitating innovative and critical thinking,
we may need to evaluate critically the expectations which motivate the
design.
Ania Lian
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