Reports a study designed to determine if teaching science by inquiry helps students learn by discovery and become less teacher-oriented. (LS)

Interviews with workers and visits to work sites provide students with first hand career planning experiences. Interviewing and questioning techniques can be practiced in the classroom. Sample questions, a checklist for formulating questions, and a visit evaluation form are included. (MW)

Several well-known theorists' definitions of the "new social studies" that define social studies as citizenship transmission, social science, or reflective inquiry are examined. (ND)

Preservice elementary teachers, enrolled in an inquiry oriented science and social science methods course, were given pre- and posttests concerning their preferences for memorized facts (M), applications(A), or questioning (Q) in true statements related to subjects studied; scores on M and A changed as predicted. The questionnaire is included. (SD)

Describes sensory boxes which are colorful, simple and inexpensive devices which stimulate skill of observation, communication and classification in lower elementary children. (BR)

This paper analyzes how philosophy enters into inquiry in teacher education, in writings by both philosophers and nonphilosophers. Examples illustrate philosophical activities (such as conceptual and logical analysis, positing and explaining distinctions, evoking shared ideas and values), as well as showing that philosophy plays an important part…

Since the last comprehensive museum survey was conducted in 1971-72, no current data has been gathered about the museum field. Because the field has not remained static it has become difficult to apply the 1971-72 survey findings to current museum situations. Because of this, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was requested to…

This large-scale field experiment examined the potential of various training and supervision programs to affect the performance of health survey interviewers and the quality of data they collect. It was found that interviewers who received less than one day of basic training generally displayed inadequate interviewing skills. A program of tape…

An illustration of the cognitive theory of inquiry teaching is presented in this paper in a tutorial dialogue on the nature of lenses. After a description of the goals of the method, the paper discusses the following ten general strategies inquiry teachers use to accomplish the goals: (1) selecting positive and negative exemplars, (2) varying…

Philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood developed and elaborated a theory and approach to reconstructing knowledge about the past that relies on the historical imagination. This paper argues that Collingwood's theory offers teachers sound reasons for using constructivist approaches in their classrooms and that his methodological approach can…

High School teachers from Idaho and Utah describe several experience-oriented teaching strategies that exemplify what teachers can produce when given support to undertake sustained curriculum development. (Author/JH)

Three locally developed elementary and junior high social studies units are described. (DE)