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Re: Inquiry, Process, and Discovery
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
Myra Zarnowski and Susan Turkel have written quite a lot about what they co nsider "literature that highlights inquiry" -- see Journal of Children's Li terature v 36 #1, for example; and their article on "How Nonfiction Reveals the Nature of Science" in Children's Literature in Education (I don't have the pub info, perhaps Myra can supply it); there is an increasing shelf of books that seek to engage readers in process and method as much, or even m ore, than conclusion -- to name just a few: the whole Scientists in the Fie ld series; Sally Walker's forensics books, Loree Griffin Burns's books; and , I dare say, the books I have written with various scientists and historia ns such as Scott Nelson, Mike Parker Pearson, and Lee R. Berger. Inquiry is , of course, at the heart of the Common Core -- across ELA, math, science, and surely social studies when those standards are released and so we are l ikely to see more books that turn attention from passing along settled know ledge to engaging readers in the questi on of how knowledge is created.
Marc Aronson
Received on Thu 14 Mar 2013 02:48:00 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
Myra Zarnowski and Susan Turkel have written quite a lot about what they co nsider "literature that highlights inquiry" -- see Journal of Children's Li terature v 36 #1, for example; and their article on "How Nonfiction Reveals the Nature of Science" in Children's Literature in Education (I don't have the pub info, perhaps Myra can supply it); there is an increasing shelf of books that seek to engage readers in process and method as much, or even m ore, than conclusion -- to name just a few: the whole Scientists in the Fie ld series; Sally Walker's forensics books, Loree Griffin Burns's books; and , I dare say, the books I have written with various scientists and historia ns such as Scott Nelson, Mike Parker Pearson, and Lee R. Berger. Inquiry is , of course, at the heart of the Common Core -- across ELA, math, science, and surely social studies when those standards are released and so we are l ikely to see more books that turn attention from passing along settled know ledge to engaging readers in the questi on of how knowledge is created.
Marc Aronson
Received on Thu 14 Mar 2013 02:48:00 PM CDT
