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Download full textCollins, Allan – 1986
Inquiry teaching forces students to actively engage in articulating theories and principles that are critical to understanding a domain. Inquiry teachers have three distinct goals: (1) to help students construct a given theory or set of principles; (2) to help students construct novel theories or principles; and (3) to teach students how to pose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
