The inquiry-based Family Maths professional development programme, offered by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, attempts not only to support the transformative education practices targeted by the South African National Department of Education, but also to extend them beyond the school walls to the community at large. This study investigates the extent to which this programme develops ...

We describe the design of a knowledge-building environment and examine the roles of knowledge-building portfolios in characterizing and scaffolding collaborative inquiry. Three classes of Grade 9 students in Hong Kong used Knowledge Forum (KF) under several design conditions. Results showed (1) Students working on portfolios guided with knowledge building principles showed more participation, d...

Dignity and independence are widely considered as core concepts to aging well, yet little research has explored how older adults perceive these issues in the context of community life. Moreover, little is known regarding the ways in which the broader public views and enhances aging with dignity and independence with their older residents. Using participatory action research, multiple methods of...

Philosophy contests proliferate today. The Olympiads are the most common. In International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) community there is some concern about a possible contradiction between cooperative and community-centred approach to practice philosophy in education intrinsic rivalry competitions. arguments against these focus on their main risks. It thought that th...

The framework of inquiry community theory provides a unique perspective, method and tool for online learning blended research. Based on this, this paper first introduces the origin connotation theory, then reviews researches under at home abroad in recent years, divides into four categories, which are focusing itself three components framework, aiming to provide reference framework. It is concl...

This paper seeks to reconstruct the role of schooling in a moment accelerated social, political, economic, geo-political, climatic, indeed planetary crisis. It identifies school as potentially prefigurative institution, an evolutionary social frontier, capable nurturing democratic character, form sensibility apart from which authentic political democracy is not possible. As theorized by Herbert...

Wiki use may help EFL instructors to create an effective learning environment for inquiry-based language teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of wikis on the EFL learners’ IBL process. Forty-nine EFL students participated in the study while they conducted research projects in English. The Non-wiki group (n = 25) received traditional inquiry instr...

The sociocultural ways of conceptualizing human learning in general education have given rise to various sensitive and time-consuming tools of knowledge production for both the researcher and the researched. The gravity of the situation is more noticeable in narrative inquiry methodology, which has gathered momentum in both general education and second language teacher education (SLTE) because ...