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Copyright © 2010 Viterbo University and author, reproduced here by kind permission of the publisher. This is an electronic version of the published article that was originally published in Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 3, 2, pp. 21-31 in 2010 by Viterbo University, the journal website is available at http://www.viterbo.edu/atpp/. A link to the published article is also available at http://www.viterbo.edu/analyticteaching.aspx?id=57798

Abstract

This paper takes a board perspective on Community of Inquiry (CI), following the orientation of earlier pa- pers looking at progressive pedagogies (Morehouse, 1993a; 1993b). In those papers, I argued that Philosophy for Children should look for kindred spirits in order to both better understand its own position within pedagogic tradition and to “make friends” in order to positively influences the lives and learning of children. The whole language approaches to reading instruction was the major focus of those papers. Here I take a bolder perspec- tive arguing that in order to understand and appreciate what a community of inquiry is, how it operates, and its influence in the schools, one ought to look at applications of CI that are not within the Philosophy for Children literature. Some of these programs specifically discuss CI, others do not. In taking such an approach towards the literature of pedagogy, I have discovered and included programs that do use the words ‘community of inquiry’ as a part of the pedagogic lexicon.

Disciplines

Adult and Continuing Education Administration | Education | Educational Psychology | Higher Education Administration | Other Educational Administration and Supervision

Recommended Citation

Morehouse, R. (2010). Developing communities of inquiry in the USA: Retrospective and prospective. Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 3(2), 21-31.