Enquiring Minds
Enquiring Minds is a research and development project exploring questions of educational change. The aim of Enquiring Minds is to enable students to take more responsibility for the content, processes and outcomes of their learning. We believe that students bring to school valid and important knowledge, and the project is an attempt to bring about deeper engagement in learning by starting from students’ own interests and needs. For teachers, Enquiring Minds offers the possibility of an extended view of their work as they find ways to respond sensitively and practically to children’s lives and existing knowledge.
Enquiring Minds is being developed at a time when there is heightened debate about how the curriculum and schools should be organised. This guide provides an account of what is distinctive about the Enquiring Minds approach, arguments about why schools and teachers should develop the approach in schools, and guidance as to how it can be developed. We start from the assumption that sustainable change in schools happens though the principled thinking and practices of teachers rather than through the imposition of external models.
If you would like to read more about Enquiring Minds, please follow this link.
Enquiring Minds Guide
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