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Newton, Richard F. – Clearing House, 1972
The author describes the transition of history from out of the social studies curriculum, which has become closely associated with the social sciences, into an intimate relation with the humanities. (AN)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, History, History Instruction, History Textbooks

Newton, Richard F. – Teachers College Record, 1975
This article points out the flaws inherent in the hypothetico-deductive formulation of inquiry. (CD)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Critical Thinking, Hypothesis Testing, Inquiry
Newton, Richard F. – 1973
This essay examines flaws in the standard hypothetical-deduction inquiry model and offers another quite different model of inquiry, the multiple-completing model, for use in the school classroom. In positing this new model of inquiry the assumption has been made that a pedagogical inquiry model need not necessarily be an accurate reflection of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Hypothesis Testing
Newton, Richard F. – 1974
A significant problem with inquiry teaching is that too much emphasis is placed on inquiry as a logical, scientific, and rational way of knowing. Feelings and mood are rarely dealt with except in rather off-handed remarks about intuitive leaps and creative encounters. Few consider what a model of inquiry based on mood and feeling might look like.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Development