Inquiry Co-operation

Alro, Helle and Ole Skovsmose. (2002) Inquiry Co-operation. Chapter 2 in Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education: Intention, Reflection, Critique (pp. 45-65). AH Dordrecht: The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

In this chapter, the authors describe a particular way of imagining student-teacher interactions. The notion of inquiry co-operation is a way that students and teachers navigate the landscape of investigation. It begins with getting in contact with one another, in order to co-operate. Secondly, teachers locate the students' perspectives on the problem or situation. Other steps include: identifying, thinking aloud, reformulating, challenging, and evaluating. This process attempts to facilitate a learner-centered classroom and deviate from the more autocratic classrooms of our teaching traditions.