Having an inquiring mind: a strategy that contributes to better learning processes and perhaps better results

• Autores: Onaga, Graciela Fabiana
• Año de publicación: 2015
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: tesis de grado
• Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis: Andrade, Alejandra; Bicoff, Carla
• Materia: Questions; Inquiring minds; Institutional project
• Institución: Universidad FASTA

Fil: This proposal intends to inform the Néstor Oscar Palacios school authorities and community in general that their students usually have difficulties to formulate questions and that those difficulties might be one of the factors that affect their learning processes and performance. This justifies the recommendation of the need to have an institutional policy that aims at the development of “inquiring minds with a questioning pedagogy” (Faundez, A & Freire, P., 2013 [2010]). It should also contemplate the relevance of the implementation of an institutional project encouraging all teachers to engage their students in communicative situations where they need to reflect upon and formulate questions because their learners might eventually work more attentively and be better-motivated to participate more actively in the different classes answering, commenting as well as reflecting on and formulating suitable questions to others. Moreover, this inquiring ability could be applied to obtain information which is relevant to develop different tasks related to the topics being dealt with in the different school subjects. By doing so, the necessary “frequency of exposure (PETITTO, Laura-Ann and DUNBAR, Kevin (2004) to the practice of questioning structures” can be guaranteed to contribute to these learners’ successful learning, creativity, thoughtfulness and better educational results.
Fil: Onaga, Graciela Fabiana. Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.
Fil: Andrade, Alejandra. Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.
Fil: Bicoff, Carla. Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.