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Inquiry, Grades 4-6
Recommended Reading


Books

Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. (1987). The Psychology of Written Composition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. (1993). Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise. Chicago: Open Court.

Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Dewey, J. (1997). How We Think. New York: Houghton-Mifflin College.

Giere, R. (1991). Understanding Scientific Reasoning (3rd ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace.

Lehrer, A., & Chazan, D. (1998). New Directions for Teaching and Learning Geometry. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Matthews, M. (1994). Science Teaching: The Role of History and Philosophy of Science. New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Popper, K. (1992). Conjectures and Refutations. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Pressley, M. and Woloshyn, V. (1995). Cognitive Strategy Instruction That Really Improves Children's Academic Performance. Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books.

Articles

Anderson, R. C. & Pearson, P. D. (1984). A Schema-Theoretic View of Basic Processes in Reading. In P. D. Pearson, R. Barr, L. Kamil, & P. Mosenthal (Eds.), Handbook of Reading Research (pp. 255-292). New York: Longman.

Bereiter, C. and Scardamalia, M. (1989). Intentional Learning as a Goal of Instruction. In L. B. Resnick, (Ed.), Knowing, Learning, and Instruction: Essays in Honor of Robert Glaser. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Brewer, W. F. (1989). The Activation and Acquisition of Knowledge. In S. Vosniadou, & A. Ortony (Eds.), Similarity and Analogical Reasoning. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, A. (1987). Metacognition, Executive Control, Self-Regulation, and Other More Mysterious Mechanisms. In F. E. Weinert, & R. H. Kluwe (Eds.), Metacognition, Motivation, and Understanding. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Brown, A., Bransford, J., Ferrara, R., & Campione, J. (1983). Learning, Remembering, and Understanding. In J. Flavell, & E. Markman (Eds.), Handbook of Child Psychology: Vol. 3. Cognitive Development (4th ed.). New York: Wiley.

Brown, A., & Campione, J. (1990). Communities of Learning and Thinking, or a Context by Any Other Name. Human Development, 21, 109-125.

Bruer, J. T. (1993). The Mind's Journey from Novice to Expert. American Educator, 17, 6-15, 38-46.

Palincsar, A. S., & Brown, A. L. (1984). Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Monitoring Activities. Cognition & Instruction, 1, 117-175.

Schack, G. D. (April, 1993). Involving Students in Authentic Research. Educational Leaderhip, 29-31.

Vosniadou, S. (1991a). Children's Naive Models and the Comprehension of Expository Text. In M. Carretero, M. Pope, R. J. Simons, & J. I. Pozo (Eds.), Learning and Instruction: European Research in an International Context (Vol. 3, pp. 325-336). Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Vosniadou, S. (1991b). Designing Curricula for Conceptual Restructuring: Lessons from the Study of Knowledge Acquisition in Astronomy. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 23, 219-237.

White, B. Y., & Frederickson, J. R. (1988). Inquiry, Modeling, and Metacognition: Making Science Accessible to All Students. Cognition & Instruction, 16, 13-17.

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