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Inquiry Learning

 

With this framework in mind it is possible to explain why learning should involve processes, not procedures.
             Why should learning be a process versus a procedure?.
             Freire's (1970) criticism of the banking model of education is that it views students as blank slates to be filled; the obvious error in this banking model is that the students are effectively taken out of the learning cycle. The notion of teaching students has been responsible for the traditional prescriptive and procedural teaching seen in American schools (Freire, 1970; Macedo, 1994). According to Graff (2001) the main goal of traditional education has been to reinforce "habits of regularity, docility, punctuality, orderliness, and respect" (p. 217). What better way to reinforce these habits, and strip students of ownership and power, then to put forward a set of linear steps for students to proceed through to uncover the "right answers" (Freire, 1970; Graff, 2001; McCallister, 2002). .
             Dewey believed that teaching becomes a "social stigma instead of an honor" when student and teacher thinking is done with " uniformity as well as conformity- (Dewey, 1959, p.135). Recognizing that student learning is the goal, learning must neither be viewed as a procedure nor a set of linear steps to be followed so that the long-standing tradition of schools being a " routine empirical affair" can be avoided (Dewey, 1916, p.384). .
             Conversely, the goal of critical literacy is to make students aware of who obtains and possesses power, allowing the students to question their world (Freire, 1970; Macedo, 1994). Teaching that is both process oriented and recursive in nature therefore proves to be fruitful for children's learning (Langford, 2001; Geahigan, 1998a; Geahigan, 1998b; McCallister, 2002, Fecho 2000). .
             Learning is a process (Chilcoat, 1996; Everett-Allsup, 2003; Langford, 2001; Geahigan, 1998a, Geahigan, 1998b, Short & Burke, 1996; Cousin, Dembrow, & Molldrem-Shamel, 1997; Tower, 2000).


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