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Community of Enquiry
The Community of Enquiry* is a structured approach to student questioning and dialogue through which students develop as reflective, creative, logical and collaborative thinkers.
The method can be used to allow students to direct their own learning in individual lessons and /or to co-construct medium term schemes. Teachers can allow more or less freedom to students depending on the desired outcomes. Teachers are fully involved at all times with students working within a well structured and positive teaching and learning environment.
CoE is currently used in schools to:
- Enhance the quality of dialogue, questioning, reasoning and engagement in lessons across the curriculum.
- Provide for structured ownership of learning
- Challenge G&T students
- Facilitate primary to secondary transfer
- Structure positive role modelling of learning between year groups
- Provide 6th Form enrichment
As well as incorporating CoE across the curriculum the approach is also specifically used to enhance Student Voice, PLTS, SEAL, and PSHCE provision.
Argument Mapping
Argument Mapping is a powerful tool for developing students' logical thinking skills. Originally developed to empower Visual and Kinaesthetic learners and adapted for schools in collaboration between Enquiring Minds and Dr Graham Smith of Northampton University the approach helps students to identify and develop:
- Arguments
- Claims
- Evidence
- Reasons for
- Objections to
- Conclusions
- Premises
- Hidden premises
- Ambiguities
The method boosts thinking skills and helps in the organisation of independent learning and essay writing skills.
*as used in the P4C approach to teaching and learning
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