Inquiry in Education, Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative

Why should inquiry - the engine for independent, curiosity- and interest-driven, life-long learning - be a curricular imperative, and its presence a criterion for excellent education? Is it possible to teach inquiry skills systematically and to engage learners in being inquirers across elementary, secondary, and post-secondary schooling?

To answer these urgent questions, this book

• pulls together more than four decades of expert opinion, quantitative research, and qualitative research on inqu...