Inquiry and Problem Solving - http://www.enc.org/focus/topics/inquiry/index.htm
A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. |
John Dewey - http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/janicke/Dewey.html
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. |
Of Chickens and Projects - http://www.fno.org/nov97/egg.html
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. |
Paulo Freire and Informal Education - http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
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. |
Socio-cultural theory - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning. |
Spinning Webs of Significance - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/iscrat_99.html
This paper looks at activity systems from the perspective of the World Wide Web and Web publishing. It discusses notions of value surrounding web artifacts and considers the mediational value to the developer of anonymous communities that appropriate one's own online artifacts. The author investigates the significance of referring links from one web document to another, particularly from the socio-cultural perspective of Activity Theory. |
Teaching Science - http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/teach/resources/science.shtml
Thoughts on inquiry approaches to learning and teaching science. |
The Foxfire Approach to Teaching and Learning: John Dewey, Experiential Learning, and the Core Practices. ERIC Digest. - http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-3/foxfire.htm
Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which examines the experiental learning theories of John Dewey and applies them to the Foxfire readers. |