Inquiry and Problem Solving
A special issue of Focus: A Magazine for Classroom Innovators from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education.
http://www.enc.org/focus/topics/inquiry/index.htm
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John Dewey
John Dewey (1859-1952) was an American philosopher and educator whose writings and teachings have had profound influences on education in the United States. Dewey's philosophy of education, instrumentalism (also called pragmatism), focused on learning-by-doing rather than rote learning and dogmatic instruction, the current practice of his day.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/janicke/Dewey.html
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Of Chickens and Projects
A project-based curriculum is intended to improve the environment for learning in schools -- to give students a fuller spectrum of opportunities for building their strength and confidence as learners.
http://www.fno.org/nov97/egg.html
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Paulo Freire and Informal Education
Perhaps the most influential thinker about education in the late twentieth century, Freire has been particularly popular with informal educators with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed.
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
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Socio-cultural theory
A collection of links to research and theory on social and cultural dimensions of learning.
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
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