Orchestrating Inquiry Learning
Orchestrating Inquiry Learning by Karen Littleton, published by Routledge in 2012, is a comprehensive exploration of inquiry learning and its implementation in educational settings. This edition, comprising 227 pages, delves into the growing interest in inquiry learning, particularly its potential to enhance higher-order thinking skills when supported by technology. The book addresses the challenges faced by both teachers and students in adopting inquiry methods, emphasizing the importance of effective resource management and activity design.
Readers will find a collection of integrated chapters that examine various aspects of inquiry learning, including orchestration of instruction, trajectories of inquiry, and collaborative learning approaches. The text discusses the significance of designing engaging and relevant inquiry experiences, as well as the assessment of such learning in formal and semi-formal contexts. Aimed at researchers, educators, and policy makers, this book provides valuable insights into the effective promotion of inquiry learning within diverse educational frameworks.
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There is currently a rapidly growing interest in inquiry learning and an emerging consensus among researchers that, particularly when supported by technology, it can be a significant vehicle for developing higher order thinking skills. Inquiry learning methods also offer learners meaningful and productive approaches to the development of their knowledge of the world, yet such methods can present significant challenges for teachers and students.
Orchestrating Inquiry Learning addresses the key challenge of how to resource and support processes of inquiry learning within and beyond the classroom. It argues that technological support, when coupled with appropriate design of activities and management of the learning environment, can enable inquiry learning experiences that are engaging, authentic and personally relevant.
This edited collection of carefully integrated chapters brings together, for the first time; work on inquiry learning and orchestration of learning. Drawing upon a broad range of theoretical perspectives, this book examines:
- Orchestration of inquiry learning and instruction
- Trajectories of inquiry learning
- Designing for inquiry learning
- Scripting personal inquiry
- Collaborative and collective inquiry learning
- Assessment of inquiry learning
- Inquiry learning in formal and semi-formal educational contexts
Orchestrating Inquiry Learning is essential reading for all those concerned with understanding and promoting effective inquiry learning. The book is aimed at an international audience of researchers, post-graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in education, educational technology and psychology. It will also be of interest to educational practitioners and policy makers, including teachers, educational advisors, teacher-students and their trainers.
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