This paper proposes the construct of metacognition as a potential bridge between the concerns of educators and the concerns of researchers who study cognitive development. In so doing, it highlights, as another bridging construct, the phenomenon of transfer, or, more precisely, the absence of transfer. The difficulty of achieving transfer of…

This paper discusses how John Dewey's logic in his theory of inquiry can inform and perhaps guide efforts to re-form education and to allow the creative forces of emergence to affect and create adaptive social systems as learning organizations. The paper contends that Dewey's naturalistic theory of experience predated yet anticipated the…

This paper represents the results of research that involved volunteer high school students. Apprenticeship is a program in science and engineering that places students in science laboratories to provide them opportunities to improve their perspective on scientific principles and scientific inquiry. The study examined the effects of an eight-week…

The purpose of this article is to propose a base from which the study of Latin American culture might be initiated utilizing ideas from two new approaches. A plan is presented for organizing inquiry into Latin American culture around main ideas. (Author/KM)

The five steps in the basic process of inquiry are discussed. Methods to facilitate student inquiry in the classroom are emphasized. (Author/RM)

Activities to help the classroom teacher involve students in the process of raising, defining, investigating, and resolving problems and questions are suggested. Selected references are included. (Author/RM)

Author presents a simplified teacher question classification model as a first step in training teachers to question their students more effectively. (GB)

Some obvious difficulties of teaching and testing history as inquiry are reviewed. Examples of test items that require students to utilize thought processes developed through inquiry teaching are presented together with a rationale for their use. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is proposed as a useful tool in test construction. (SM)

This paper relates the function of history as a discipline of knowledge to the student's cognitive abilities and development. (Author)

Listed are varied strategies to be developed by teachers to break down prejudice and develop skill in planning and teaching for equality. (JB)

Case studies are of value not only in the building and testing of knowledge, but in the practice they provide for the practical applications of knowledge to specific situations. (Author)

Various aspects of the litter problem can be manipulated in the classroom and in the field to effectively develop concepts of scientific method, information acquisition and recording, techniques of data analyses, means of classification and interpretation, and also to predict new problems and hypotheses. (Author)

A series of short articles providing ideas for the use of electronic apparatus, demonstrations of magnetic fields, demonstrations of the conservation of momentum, and a new idea for an investigation of a black box.'' (AL)