WELCOME
(Daily Calvin & Hobbes, 2015)
Hello Everyone,
While Calvin and Hobbes is one of my favorite cartoon strips, not because of their sense of humor, but also a true to life impact it leaves on oneself. In the above strip, it accurately portrays the innate urge to explore and to know how the world works that is at the heart of inquiry. With the well shaped pedagogical structure, one can fuel as well as sustain student’s curiosity in learning.
“Inquiries begin when people come up with the phenomena of finding out the answers to the questions that intrigue or surprise them. This initial encounter with inquiry leads to pathways of investigation and exploration which leaves a long lasting learning experience.”(Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, San Francisco | Exploratorium, Pathways-to-Learning)
I have also tried to take you on a journey of inquiry with my Inquiry Project themed “PLASTIC POLLUTION” where I feel it will definitely provide a holistic learning experience where students will be encouraged to ask, investigate, create, discuss and reflect upon their ideas, thoughts, experiences and become informed citizens of the community with sustainable solutions to this current problem in the world.
“This being a living inquiry, the best place to start it is wherever one finds oneself existentially. One looks inwardly into one’s own thoughts and feelings, while facing the world, noting how one reacts with conditioned thoughts and feeling responses. Usually we are too busy reacting that we do not stop to reflect and examine our response. Inquiry starts at this point of stop. From this place of stop, we question the necessity of “the way things are,” and address the possibility of seeing the world and the self differently and hence relating to the world differently. “What if I were to…?”
—Heesoon Bai, 2005, p. 47
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