Developing Inquiry for Learning: Reflecting Collaborative
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ovens, Peter / Wells, Frances / Wallis, Patricia, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tuong>toong>rs can help students ong>toong> improve their abilities ong>toong> learn and ong>toong> become professional inquirers. Participation in higher education is widening and students have increasingly diverse needs and learning styles and many bring powerful expectations that learning tends ong>toong> be a passive process. University tuong>toong>rs required ong>toong> teach ever larger groups are finding increasing difficulty ong>toong> meet these needs and help people ong>toong> become more independently motivated and more collaborative learners. In the innovative and proven approach developed by the authors however, students are guided ong>toong> perform action research inong>toong> their learning practices, actions and reflections. Using a rolling programme of cyclical inquiries and whole group a conferencesa (TM) on improving learning, students write a patchesa (TM) on learning development which are then shared across the year group online. Each studenta (TM)s cumulative set of patches, ong>toong>gether ong>withong> their regular reflective writing, provide the basis for assembling a composite final assignment, a a patchwork texta (TM), for assessment. This style of curriculum and assessment organization encourages regular peer feedback and formative assessment, as part of the whole module process, ong>toong> build personal confidence ong>withong>in students both as learners and as professionals. While providing teaching materials and examples of studentsa (TM) responses, including the use of Blogs, Wikis and Discussion Boards, the book also analyses and theorises on the deeper characteristics of the difficulties being addressed, using several theoretical perspectives. Readers are thus equipped ong>toong> adopt, adapt and experiment ong>withong> their own developments in their teaching and curricula ong>withong> relevant frameworks of theory and values.