Inquiry-based science can be a powerful approach to learning scientific concepts and keeping wonder and curiosity alive in the classroom. As stated by Hubert Dyasi, Professor Emeritus, City College New York, “Inquiry aligns with children’s natural impulses to learn. It is an affirmation of a person’s capacity to learn, an essential ingredient in every child’s wholesome intellectual and cultural development.” However, the challenge for us as educators, even amidst pressures to teach for “accountability,” is to find ways to continually create the pathways that nurture this development. We can afford to do no less to prepare our students to take their place as citizens of an increasingly complex world.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 2/1/2011Stock # sc11_048_06_8Volume 048Issue 06