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  2. Inquiry-based learning - Wikipedia

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    Inquiry-based learning (also spelled as enquiry-based learning in British English) [a] is a form of active learning that starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios. It contrasts with traditional education, which generally relies on the teacher presenting facts and their knowledge about the subject.

  3. Inquiry - Wikipedia

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    A question mark. An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English) [a] is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim.

  4. Inquiry education - Wikipedia

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    Inquiry education (sometimes known as the inquiry method) is a student-centered method of education focused on asking questions.Students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers; teachers are encouraged to avoid giving answers when this is possible, and in any case to avoid giving direct answers in favor of asking more questions.

  5. Scholarship of teaching and learning - Wikipedia

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    Inquiry methods in SOTL include reflection and analysis, interviews and focus groups, questionnaires and surveys, content analysis of text, secondary analysis of existing data, quasi-experiments (comparison of two sections of the same course), observational research, and case studies, among others. As with all scholarly study, evidence depends ...

  6. Content and language integrated learning - Wikipedia

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    The term CLIL was created in 1994 by David Marsh as a methodology similar to but distinct from language immersion and content-based instruction. The idea of its proponents was to create an "umbrella term" which encompasses different forms of using language as the medium of instruction. [3]

  7. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, semantics, general semantics, and ontologies, hyponymy (from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó) 'under' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') shows the relationship between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym). A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym.

  8. Ethnomethodology - Wikipedia

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    Thus, there is an essential natural reflexivity between the activity of making sense of a social setting and the ongoing production of that setting; the two are in effect identical. Furthermore, these practices (or methods) are witnessably enacted, making them available for study. [3] [10] This opens up a broad and multi-faceted area of inquiry.

  9. Progressive inquiry - Wikipedia

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    Progressive Inquiry model. [ 1 ] Progressive inquiry is a pedagogical model which aims at facilitating the same kind of productive knowledge practices of working with knowledge in education that characterize scientific research communities.