Week |
Readings |
Alternate Readings |
| 1 | In class:
Personal introductions Introduction to the course, syllabus, and assignments Experiences of inquiry: write/discuss/patterns Questions about inquiry Inquiry topic choice Technical issues |
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| 2 | L. Bohannan, "Shakespeare in the bush," 201-216
J. Harste and C. H. Leland, "No quick fix: Education as Inquiry" B. C. Bruce, Searching the Web: New domains for inquiry, 348-354, JAAL The Inquiry Page |
K.
Hume, Exploring the stars, 1-12
G. Wiggins, "The futulity...," 44-50 |
| 3 | K. Hume, ________
R. Peterson, "Young authors" E. Duckworth, "The having of wonderful ideas," 217-231 V. Paley, Wally's Stories L. Calkins, chapter on theme studies V. Paley, "On listening...," 122-131 E. Duckworth, "Teaching as research," 122-141 |
M. Osborne, "Balancing Individual and the Group: A Dilemma for the Constructivist Teacher" |
| 4 | Phillips, The good, the bad·...
D. Hawkins, "Messing about...," 63-75 Riding, "Summerhill Revisited," NYTimes, 24-29, 11/7/99 (Education Life) J. Copenhaver, "Instances of Inquiry [wonderful questions]," Primary Voices K-6 (NCTE April 93), 6-12 |
E.
Keller, "A feeling for the organism," 197-207
U. of Chicago, "Why those pesky rings?...," 1-6 G.
Polya, "On learning, teaching, ...," 605-619
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| 5 | Wiggins, "Graduation by exhibition", Web
Wiggins, "Practicing What We Preach in Designing Authentic Assessments" T. Sills-Briegel, C. Fisk, and V, Dunlop, Graduation by Exhibition, article http://www.ascd.org/pubs/el/dec96/dtoc.html |
G. Wells, "Language and the inquiry-oriented curriculum," 1-35 |
| 6 | J. Dewey, The child & the curriculum,v-xii, 3-31
G. Wells, "Dialogic inquiry in education: Building on the legacy of Vygotsky," |
T. Newkirk, "'Books! What sad furnishings ...'," 1-10 |
| 7 | J. Easley, "A teacher educator's perspective...," 507-524
E. Kelley, Education for what is real, 13-93 |
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| 8 | C. Donnan, "Following our forebears'...," 1-9
E. Wigginton, "Foxfire grows up," 48-73 B. Beyer, Inquiry..., 1-25 |
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| 9 | Inquiry and Problem Solving: A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education. | N.
Atwell, In the middle, 24-50
L. Calkins, The art of teaching writing, 452-479 |
| 10 | J. Easley & R. Zwoyer, "Teaching by listening," 19-25
B. C. Bruce, "The Problem With an Inquiry Lesson Plan," |
D.
Schifter, "A constructivist...," 492-499
M. Siegel, et al., "A critical review...," 269-277 |
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Soloway, "Beware, techies ...," 17-24
J. Hawkins, "Assessment and technology," 74-76 S. Turkle, "Constructions...," 1-13 |
| 12 | S. Drake, "How our team dissolved...," 20-22
J. Beane, "The middle school...," 9-13 |
L.
Greene, "Science-centered...," 42-46
D. Perkins, "Educating for insight," 4-8 I. Westbury, "Conventional classrooms...," 99-121 |
| 13 | L. Delpit, "The silenced dialogue ...," 280-298
G. Boomer, "Literacy...," 4-17 S. Sarason, School change..., 124-146 |
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| 14 | W. May, "Teaching as a work of art ...," 210-218
M. Grumet, "The play of meanings...," 204-209 E. Eisner, The educational imagination, 154-170 E. Ristad, A soprano on her head, 126-137, 192-201 |
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