Child-Led Research: Questioning Knowledge

philosophical questioning , a new era in education research

This paper, titled "Question and its place in philosophical counseling" is about to answer the following questions: 1- What is  a question?2- What is philosophical counseling? 3- Where does question’s stand in philosophical counseling? 4- How will questioning and philosophical counseling change educational researches? Dialectic and qualitative content analysis will be used to answer the questio...

Questioning the Questions of Instructional Technology Research

In April 1994, I was "flamed" on the Internet, a '90s phenomenon that has been portrayed in publications as diverse as The New Yorker (Seabrook, 1994) and The Chronicle of Higher Education (Lemisch, 1995). Although what exactly constitutes a "flame" in the rapidly evolving "metaverse" (Stephenson, 1993) is a matter of much debate, I can vividly recall the feelings of shock and anger that swept ...

Questioning current definitions for breastfeeding research

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to examine how breastfeeding is defined for research purposes. DISCUSSION Current breastfeeding definitions focus on the amount of breast milk an infant receives and do not encompass how a baby is fed. Our concerns are that key variables are not measured when mothers are pumping or expressing their milk and bottle feeding. It seems the breastfeeding relatio...

Questioning the cost of biomedical research.

Child-led enquiry in primary science

This research describes and evaluates the application of a child-led approach to scientific enquiry (the Community of Scientific Enquiry, CoSE) to children aged 8-11 (Key Stage 2) in Northern Ireland. Primary teachers were introduced to CoSE at a workshop and asked to evaluate its implementation with their class. Results from children (n = 364) and teachers (n = 19) found that CoSE engaged chil...