| 1. | Teaching Science | | | Thoughts on inquiry approaches to learning and teaching science.
www.ed.uiuc.edu |
| 3. | Education Quote of the Day | | | A diverse set of views on education, especially related to goals for student-centered learning.
www.ed.uiuc.edu |
| 4. | Paulo Freire and Informal Education | | | Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed.
www.infed.org |
| 5. | Dialogic Inquiry in Education: Building on the legacy of Vygotsky | | | Vygotsky's theory of learning and development can integrate recent research; by conceptualizing the classroom as a Community of Inquiry, we can see how collaborative group work, dialogic knowledge building, and an inquiry-oriented curriculum are essential and interdependent components.
www.oise.utoronto.ca |
| 6. | "What Have You Learned?": Co-Constructing the Meaning of Time | | | Learning in science can be seen as part of a continuing cultural process of appropriating the achievements of the past and transforming them into a resource for creative and innovative problem-solving in the present and future.
www.oise.utoronto.ca |
| 8. | Inquiry and Problem Solving | | | A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
www.enc.org |
| 10. | Of Chickens and Projects | | | A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as learners.
www.fno.org |
| 11. | John Dewey | | | John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have had profound influences on education in the United States. Dewey's philosophy of education, instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
lrs.ed.uiuc.edu |
| 12. | Socio-cultural theory | | | A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning.
carbon.cudenver.edu |
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