Thought provoking...

Extracts from the reader that I found really thought provoking:

Eraut describes these in his book, Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence:

I intend to use the term ‘knowledge’ to refer to the whole domain in which more specifically defined clusters of meaning reside. Thus all the different forms of knowledge... procedural knowledge, propositional knowledge, practical knowledge, tacit knowledge, skills and know-how... (1994, p. 16)

Disciplines provide particular lenses or frameworks through which to explore,

understand and act upon the world. They can be conceived of as “tools for learning…”(Sayers, 1948, in Burleigh, 1973), each characterized by certain ways of thinking, procedures and practices that are characteristic of its community, If in each of the courses students take as part of their studies the disciplinary lenses employed are made explicit to them, and they are afforded opportunities to practice these, they may come to appreciate more easily how different disciplines are distinct and similar in how they function. Knowledge of how different disciplines function, that is, how they articulate a problem, investigate it and report on the outcomes, and knowledge of the values that guide their thinking and practicing, provides students with a wider repertoire of learning tools, which so clearly an advantage in a complex world.

 Martyn Denscombe suggests that the purpose of your inquiry topic might act to:

Forecast some outcome?

Explain the causes or consequences of something?

Criticize or evaluate something?

Describe something?

Develop good practice?

Empower a particular group (2002, p. 41)