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Field-based Inquiry
Dr. Lo Tin Yau Joe
12/9/2009
1. Inquiry - meanings
• answering questions ?
• exploring causes and solving problems ?
• confronting issues ?
• clarifying values?
• constructing/reconstructing concepts?
2. Inquiry – a strategy/process
• observation→ raising questions→ making predictions→ testing hypotheses→ creating theories and conceptual models
• other alternative pathways?
3. Inquiry model
Source: (2009). Inquiry page. Learning begins with questions. Retrieved from http://inquiry.illinois.edu/index.php
4. Planning and designing
• reference to the curriculum guide/ unit or lesson plan (connectivity/curriculum fit)
• backward mapping – learning outcomes (concepts? skills? values?)
• what to teach and learn? how to teach and learn? how to assess?
5. Inquiry in LS
• knowledge is socially constructed and mediated (conceptual changes)
• connectivity – space, time , space+time
• perspective consciousness→
perspective transformation
• values clarifications/conflict resolutions
6. Inquiry instruments/methods
• textual – multi-text
• dialogic –questioning?
• social
• scientific
7. Bedrock
• challenging assumptions
• problematizing the unproblematic
• seeing old issue in new frame and context
• knowledge is tentative…subject to contextual and temporal changes
8. Pre-trip
• prior knowledge/concepts and skills of students
• designs – inquiry issues/research agenda, instruments/methods, activities/learning/assessment tasks, expected learning outcomes, assessment rubrics, extension activities
• data to be collected (multiple sources)• group? individual?
8. Pre-trip (con’t)
• part to whole
• formal and informal curricula – inter-linkage
• background information/resources
• pre-trip briefing session(s) and/or workshops (if necessary)
9. In the field
• overview→ specific• group work – one site + multiple tasks or
multiple sites +one task• inter-exhibit/inter-site connectivity• inquiry process and context –
interdisciplinary? • interactive – people and objects; people
and people
9. In the field (con’t)
• time on tasks
• observational? descriptive? explanatory? affective? exploratory? comparative?
• diverse abilities and responses (unintended outcomes?)
• teacher’s observation and field notes for debriefing
10. Post-trip
• data interpretation and analysis (triangulation) – distinguishing facts from opinions
• oral presentations (jigsawing) and peer reviews for improvement
• deficiencies and remedies
• written or non-written reports
10. Post-trip (con’t)
• self-reflection and meta-cognition
• feedback for assessment
• re-conceptualization
• extension activities?
11. Some problems and issues to be addressed:
• peripheral contents > core/key concepts
• discrete contents/facts > learning experiences
• inquiry questions → fact finding? (frame of reference? scope/sequence? flow?)
• worksheets - connectivity
• isolated/orphan skills
11. Some problems and issues to be addressed (con’t)
• level of difficulties – low? high?• transferability of knowledge through
application?• repetitions > variations (levels of
progression)• cognitive > non-cognitive (social,
contextual/physical, affective, behavioural)• technology-assisted?
• data interpretations > data analysis (triangulation)?
• evidence-based ?• curriculum-connected?• educative rubrics?• learning in action through reflections?