Pedagogical Approaches:
1.Case-based learning
2.Inquiry-based learning
3.Project-based learning
4.Resource-based learning
5.Game-based learning
Questions:
1.What is Inquiry-based learning about?
It primarily involves "real world learning". Students attempt to grasp knowledge through real life experience which requires them to observe their surroundings, conduct investigations, ask questions, make recordings and sometimes derive conclusions for their hypotheses by conducting tests and experiments.
Characteristics of inquiry-learning
- Inquiry learning emphasizes constructivist ideas of learning. Knowledge is built in a step-wise fashion. Learning proceeds best in group situations.
- The teacher does not communicate knowledge, but is rather there to help students to learn for themselves.
- The topic, problem to be studied, and methods used to answer this problem are determined by the student and not the teacher.
2.What is/are the theory/theories behind the approach?
Constructivism
The notion概念;想法;見解 that knowledge is actively constructed and that learning is an active process of meaning making has a great appeal to many education experts and researchers, lecturers and students. Constructivist concepts of teaching and learning contrast sharply with the traditional notion for teaching as knowledge transmission. The image of the active learner taking charge of his own learning and participating in processes of knowledge construction makes a strong appeal to the commonsense notion of how learning ought to be. The fact that students actively construct their own meanings and understandings, and do not passively absorb transmitted knowledge leads inevitably to the observation that "knowledge is made, not acquired (Phillips, 2000).
Constructivism as a view of knowledge has profound深刻的;深切的 consequences for the conceptualisation of teaching and learning. The emphasis in education shifts from transmission and replication of information and knowledge as a commodity to the self-constructed and self-organized students’ learning activities. Constructivist learning theory is based on the premise that the prior knowledge, attitudes and interests of students constitutes the starting point for learning and that students construct their own meaning and understanding in interaction with a sociocultural environment. Constructivism has important implications for education.
3.What have your learned from the examples?
Learning should not just be teacher-centred and teachers should recognise and tap on the value that every student contributes to the class. With this recognition, we can therefore derive that it is essential to have learning activities that require the active participation of every student. Given that every student is a building block of knowledge, without which knowledge will not be wholly constructed.
4.How might the approach be applied in your classroom?
In the context of chinese lessons, we can bring students to museums to immerse them in the world of chinese culture and history. Students can go to the museums and learn while at the same time, ask more questions about the chinese culture and history and thereby, finding the solutions themselves at the museums.
