Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates…

This article explores the importance of embedding Active Exploration teaching approaches within PE lessons and how the provision of differing equipment and divergent learning opportunities can enable choice for students to then 'self-discover' solutions to movement problems. The article showcases how Active Exploration approaches to teaching PE…

Curricular reform efforts are underway in many countries, focused on adopting inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning. Therefore, it is increasingly important to understand what outcomes students attain in inquiry environments. Derived from a literature review, a 23-item, criterion-referenced inventory is presented for theoretically…

Encourages English teachers to provide surprises in their teaching and to permit students to have the joy of discovery. (DD)

Intended for secondary teachers in rural areas, the paper examines ways to implement a learning center approach to meet a range of students' needs, including mainstreamed special needs, students, regular students, and gifted and talented students. The first section considers B. Bloom's Taxonomy as a basis for developing learning centers.…

This discussion of ways to use spirolaterals in the classroom includes making conjectures, hypotheses testing, and proofs, as well as a number of examples. (MP)

Presents an approach that combines the discovery method with graphing skills and allows students to uncover scientific laws on their own. Attempts to make the discovery method more quantitative while still teaching students how to think scientifically. (JRH)

Uses experiences with remedial readers to urge that reading must have a purpose--one purpose ultimately linked to the need for beauty, humor, and order. (MM)

The purpose of the article is to expand on one kind of conceptual conflict, contradiction, to illustrate how it might be used in a junior high school educational context. Presents an example relating to concepts of evolutionary development and explains how teachers can expand on examples presented. (DB)

Describes five types of language research projects that enable students to examine language for themselves. (DD)

Stresses the development of complex cognitive processes during adolescence and sees the challenge of the curriculum in the question of greater match between the learner's cognitive level and the material to learned. (JOW)

The material is designed to help pupils investigate how the value for slope in the equation of a line affects the inclination for the graph of an equation. A program written in BASIC designed to run on an Apple microcomputer is included. Worksheet masters for duplication are provided. (MP)

An activity leading to the discovery of a property of primes is suggested for encouraging algebra students to make nontrivial conjectures. (MP)

Presents a question designed to launch a discovery journey through conjecture, research, serendipitous encounters, proof, answers, and new questions. Reports some discoveries and suggests ways in which to incorporate this strategy into classrooms. Presents a geometry project that incorporates this problem-solving approach to mathematics. (JRH)