Making progress in the community of
inquiry
- Some philosophical skills:
- as supplied by C. Golding Connecting
Concepts: Thinking activities for Students ACER 2002.
- Come to know each other's views
- Asked questions
- Found assumptions we did'nt realise we were
making
- Come up with reasons to back up what was
said
- Come up with examples to support what was
said
- Discovered problems and issues
- Developed new ideas and opinons
- Clarified ideas and opinions
- Broadened our ideas about the
topic
- Classified or categorised some
ideas
- Worked out the consequences of views or
events
- Showed how different contexts change what we
think
- Explored the terrain
- Made a distinction between things
- Made a connection between things
- Picked out some possible solutions or
answers
- Rejected some reasons or
explanations
- Rejected some ideas, solutions or
answers
- Reached a tentative conclusion we may
change
- Reached a final conclusion we all agree
on
- Discovered it is more confusing than we
thought
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2002