FOSIL Group member Elizabeth Hutchinson has written an article – The Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning (FOSIL) Can Transform Students’ Knowledge of Their Subject – for Teaching Times.

Children need a framework to undertake enquiry-based learning well. Elizabeth Hutchinson extols FOSIL and the role of school librarians.

“Inquiry – a process and stance aimed at building knowledge and understanding of the world and ourselves in it, which is the basis for responsible participation in community – is fundamental to learning, both formal and informal” (Stripling and Toerien).

If this is a definition of inquiry, what does that mean in the reality of a school setting?

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