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Reigniting Curiosity And Inquiry In Higher Education : A Realist's Guide To Getting Started With Inquiry-based Learning
Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
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Reigniting Curiosity And Inquiry In Higher Education : A Realist's Guide To Getting Started With Inquiry-based Learning
Paperback Edition: 1
How do you develop students' capacities as independent learners, build their confidence and motivation to identify their own research agendas, and facilitate their critical thinking and research skills for effectively exploring their chosen topic? Inquiry-based learning (IBL) offers a proven means to achieve these outcomes.
IBL is a scaffolded learner-centered, student-led approach to inquiry whereby students progressively design and lead their own inquiry process, with support from the instructor. It's a powerful pedagogical approach that you can progressively adopt, first adopting it as an activity in a course to develop you and your students comfort with the practice, right up to developing an entire course or program utilizing IBL. It offers varying levels of engagement as you and your students gain familiarity with the practice, from the instructor providing structured support, to formative guidance as students gain confidence, to a point where students become increasingly self-directed and independent and are supported by the review of student peers and validated by presentations of their work to the class. This pedagogy shifts the student/instructor relationship, with the former leading and the latter supporting.
IBL is a flexible teaching and learning approach that be can progressively adopted and developed without a specific formula, and that positions students as co-constructors of knowledge, rather than passive recipients. It is student-driven, creates engagement, develops a curiosity mindset, promotes group learning that is collaborative rather than competitive, fosters metacognition, and builds confidence as students learn to deal with ambiguity and risk.
Pages : 312
Publisher : Stylus Publications
Publication date : 2022-10-27
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Education, Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education