Welcome to Artwork One, where I will take you through the process of my own inquiry into Inquiry Learning.

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Collectively, there are various models and approaches to inquiry learning, however, the following statements summarise how inquiry learning will be approached in this web journal.

 

"Inquiry Learning is a constructivist pedagogy and curriculum approach that is student centred and authentic (Alberta Learning, 2004; Kuhlthau, Maniotes, & Caspari, 2007)" (Lupton, 2017, p. 29)

 

Inquiry Learning "involve[s] finding and using information to answer a question or solve a problem" (Lupton, 2017, p. 29).

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I have recorded this process of inquiry learning for the assessment purposes of a unit of work for my Master of Education (Teacher-Librarianship) at the Queensland University of Technology.

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Although I am studying teacher-librarianship, I come from a background in Visual Arts and secondary education and this has greatly informed my initial understanding of inquiry learning in education as well as providing a metaphor for my own inquiry journey.  The process that an artist engages in, which is reflected in the processes of education in The Arts, has a strong connection with inquiry.  For this reason, a visual artist's journey has provided the metaphoric framework for this assessment.

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