SIG 20 Inquiry Learning

Coordinators

Varda Christiana square

Christiana Varda

Cyprus University of Technology; University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus

JURE Coordinator

christiana.varda@cut.ac.cy

Mission Statement

The Inquiry Learning SIG focuses on how to design learning environments for effective inquiry learning. Inquiry practices include activities that scientists engage in to explore and explain different issues, topics, or problems in different knowledge domains within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Within our SIG we conceive inquiry learning in the broad sense as referring to learning activities and approaches that aim to offer learners opportunities for engaging in inquiry practices within and beyond inquiry-based learning, such as authentic learning, discovery learning, problem-based learning, or productive failure. The design of effective inquiry learning environments that offer learners opportunities for engaging in inquiry practices involves a meaningful problem and the necessary cognitive scaffolds for supporting students during the inquiry process. To achieve an adequate design, a deep understanding of the learning processes that comprise inquiry learning and the difficulties learners may experience is necessary. The interests of the SIG include, but are not limited, to the following topics: collaborative inquiry learning, learning by modeling, scaffolding inquiry learning processes, assessment techniques for inquiry learning processes and their outcomes, and implementation of (computer-supported) inquiry learning in the curriculum and in and outside the classroom.

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History of the SIG

The SIG was founded by Ton de Jong and Zacharias Zacharia as SIG 20 Computer-Supported Inquiry Learning. To be more inclusive towards researchers with an interest in inquiry learning in general without necessarily using computers, the SIG decided during its 2015 members meeting to change its name to SIG 20 Inquiry Learning.

Former SIG 20 Coordinators:

  • Ton de Jong (founder – 2009)
  • Zacharias Zacharia (founder – 2011)
  • Margus Pedaste (2009 - 2013)
  • Astrid Wichmann (2011 - 2015)
  • Wouter van Joolingen (2013 - 2017)
  • Bram de Wever (2015 - 2019)
  • Ingo Kollar (2017 - 2021)
  • Koen Veermans (2021-2023)

Former JURE Coordinators:

  • Marios Papaevripidou (2009 - 2011)
  • Mario Mäeots (2011 - 2013)
  • Annelies Raes (2013 - 2017)
  • Juliane Kant (2017 - 2019)
  • Yiannis Georgiou (2019 – 2021)
  • Anna Keune (2021)
  • Valentina Nachtigall (2021-2023)

Conferences

Upcoming conference: SIG 20 & 26 Biennial Conference 2024

  • Theme: Digital, analogue, and hybrid learning spaces: Rethinking dialogue, inquiry, and argumentation?!

  • Date: 18th - 20th of September, 2024

  • Place: Berlin, Germany

  • Conference website

SIG 20 & 26 Biennial Conference 2022

  • Theme: Dialogue, inquiry and argumentation: shaping the future(s) of education
  • Date: 14th - 16th of September, 2022
  • Place: Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Conference website

Joint SIG 20 & 26 Webinar 2020

  • Theme: Tools of Inquiry and Argumentation to Tell Facts from Fiction
  • Date: 27th of August, 2020
  • Place: Online
  • Conference website

SIG 20 & 26 Biennial Conference 2018

  • Theme: Argumentation and Inquiry as Venues for Civic Education
  • Date: 9th - 12th of October, 2018
  • Place: Jerusalem, Israel
  • Conference website

SIG 20 & 26 Biennial Conference 2016

  • SIG20 Theme: Inquiry in and outside classrooms
  • Date: 22nd - 24th of August, 2016
  • Place: Ghent, Belgium
  • Conference website

SIG 20 Conference on Computer-Supported Inquiry Learning 2014

  • Date: 18th - 20th of August, 2014
  • Place: Malmö, Sweden

SIG 20 Conference on Computer-Supported Inquiry Learning 2012

  • Date: 21st - 24th of August, 2012
  • Place: Bochum, Germany

SIG 20 Conference on Computer-Supported Inquiry Learning 2010 (part of CBLIS)

  • Date: 4th - 7th of July, 2010
  • Place: Warsaw, Poland