Bibliography

• Black, P. & William, D. (2004), Working Inside the Black Box: Raising standards through classroom assessment, King’s College, London

This paper is based on increasing standards through the use of formative feedback. The analogy of a black box is used because our classrooms sometimes appear to be this way. Our students take off (start the school year), do some work (fly) and then the information of that flight (grades) is taken from the box at the end of the flight (school year). This article espouses the need for more formative feedback, not set grades, but comments, verbal criticism and questions so that students (and parents) can actually start to see for themselves where the grades are coming from.

I choose this paper because this form of feedback goes hand in hand with the inquiry process. Students will be choosing their own topic and their own way of presenting it. Being able to receive feedback over the course of the unit instead of only at the end will help shape and guide their project choices.

• Glasson, T (2009), Improving Student Achievment: A Practical Guide to Assessment for Learning, Curriculum Corporation, Carlton

This book is also dealing more with the idea that formative assessment plays such a huge role in the teaching process. This is different to the Black and Williams paper however in that it outlines some practical ways to incorporate these formative assessments into your classrooms along with having a section entirely devoted to “personal projects” which follow along the same line as our ILA’s.

• Holmes, Bryn and Gardner, John. (2006). E-learning : concepts and practice, London: Sage

This paper was chosen due to the significance it had with my own ILA. It deals with both the issues blocking many teachers from incorporating the internet more thoroughly into their classroom lessons along with going into a lot of detail about the benefits that can come from embracing not only the internet but also the idea that our students can sometimes be the teacher/facilitator when it comes to this area of learning.

• Kuhlthau, C. C. (2007). Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st century. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

This article details how students need to learn the inquiry process so that they can succeed in the 21^st century. She details the steps involved in an inquiry unit along with suggestions on how to facilitate your students learning through numerous activities.

Her ideas helped shape and focus my own understandings of the inquiry based approach to learning that I gained from Kath Murdoch and I have included this reading for that reason.

• Littleton, K. Scanlan, E. and Sharples M. (2011) Orchestrating Inquiry Learning, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford

This excellent resource is designed for undergraduate students as a textbook but could be easily used by any professional teacher looking for ways to incorporate inquiry style teaching and learning into their lessons. Some of the most useful sections in this book are the examples of the types of questions that teachers should be asking their students to help engage their own inquisitive/enquiring nature.

• Murdoch K. (1998), Classroom Connections: Strategies for Integrated Learning, Eleanor Curtain Publishing, Praharn

This is the main text I used to help formulate and understand the inquiry process for my unit of work on leadership. Murdoch steps you (the reader) through her phases of inquiry in easy to understand language.

I have chosen this resource to use because even after reading through many other scholars work I still find Murdochs the simplest and most practical resource available. Her phases are linear and it is easy to move between them as needed.

• Murdoch K. (2010) Phases of Inquiry, taken from http://www.kathmurdoch.com.au/uploads/media/phasesofinquiry.pdf, 28/08/2012

An updated mindmap of the inquiry phases used in one of my blog posts. It gives some information about what each phase should be about.

• O’Connell, Judy and Groom, Dean. (2010). Connect, communicate, collaborate : learning in a changing world, Camberwell: ACER

Learning in the 21^st century is different to how it was in the 20^th century. This book details the reasons why. It goes into detail about how not only students, but also parents, teachers and teaching pedagogies have also changed in different ways.

I choose this resource because it had some excellent insights into how ICT will be continuing to grow and flourish in the new century and how web 2.0 (and 3.0) will play an ever-increasing role in peoples lives. As my ILA is designed around ICT I found this resource an excellent source of information.

• Sheard, A G and Kakabdse, A P (2007). Journal of Management Development 26(4). 331-352

An interesting article dealing entirely with leadership in the business world. I included it however because it actually gave me the idea of modelling leadership qualities through role-play. Something that I will be doing with my students in the final stage of my ILA “Going further”

• Van-Duer, P. (2005) The inquiry nature of primary schools and students’ self-directed earning knowledge, International Education Journal, ERC2004 Special Issue, 2005, 5(5), 166-177.

Van-Duer’s article is about the nature of school children themselves and how they move towards inquiry learning despite our best (worst?) intentions as teachers to bombard them with information.

I choose this article to include in my reference because it gives an interesting look into the nature of school aged children and how years of teacher-directed learning can sometimes have adverse effect on the inquisitive nature that all children are born with.

• Wadham, B. Pudsey, J. & Boyd, R. (2007) Culture and Education, Pearson Education, Frenchs Forest

A textbook dealing with education and its place in our everyday culture. The book is based around Australian culture but makes reference to other cultures.

I choose this resource because much like the Van-Duer paper, it talks about the fact that children follow the inquiry process naturally and it is only through the indoctrination of 19^th and 20^th century teaching techniques that they lose this skill. It also has a large section devoted to the increasing need for students to be taught proper digital research skills which ties in with my ILA.

• Whitton, D. Sinclair C. Barker, K. Nanlohy, P & Nosworthy M. (2004), Learning for Teaching, Teaching for Learning, Cengage Learning Australia, South Melbourne

This book is based around teaching teachers how to be teachers. It looks into the reasons why some teachers never make it and others go on to become life long leaders. The book itself espouses the need for teachers to foster a love of learning into their students.

I choose this book for my reference section because of this idea of “life long learners”. This is really what we are teaching students when we use the inquiry process. We are giving them the tools to be life long learners and making them independent learners capable of finding their own answers, not just the ones in the back of the book.