A Starting Point for Inquiry Into Inquiry

Reviews the book, Integrating Inquiry Across the Curriculum by Richard H. Audet and Linda K. Jordan (Eds.) (see record 2005-04379-000). The book covers the use of inquiry, "the practice of extracting meaning from experience," as a learning technique. Besides making a case for how inquiry fits into constructivist and sociocultural learning theory, the book covers how to incorporate it into classroom practices, including meeting modern standards requirements. The reviewer states that although readers will certainly not know all they need to "create a new world" of inquiry-based learning in their classrooms simply by completing the book, they certainly will have a good start. The main criticism of the book is that space could have been saved had the editors found a way to reduce the repeated rehashing of how inquiry fits into constructivist and sociocultural learning theory. Despite this criticism, the overall volume was extremely well edited and provides plenty of direction about where to go next in pursuing inquiry as an approach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)