Having an inquiring mind: a strategy that contributes to better learning processes and perhaps better results
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2015
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Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n
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This proposal intends to inform the NĆ©stor 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 āinquiring minds with a questioning pedagogyā (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 āfrequency of exposure (PETITTO, Laura-Ann and DUNBAR, Kevin (2004) to the practice of questioning structuresā can be guaranteed to contribute to these learnersā successful learning, creativity, thoughtfulness and better educational results.
Fil: Onaga, Graciela Fabiana. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
Fil: Andrade, Alejandra. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
Fil: Bicoff, Carla. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
Fil: Onaga, Graciela Fabiana. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
Fil: Andrade, Alejandra. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
Fil: Bicoff, Carla. Universidad Fasta. Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciĆ³n; Argentina.
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Questions, Inquiring minds, Institutional project