From Questions to Transformation: A Practitioner’s Guide to Inquiry-Based Educational Reform
From Questions to Transformation: A Practitioner's Guide to Inquiry-Based Educational Reform
Unlock the power of student curiosity and turn classrooms into engines of exploration. In this forward-looking guide, veteran educator Jian Huang draws on cutting-edge research, neuroscience, and hard-won implementation lessons to show exactly how schools can move from lecture-driven routines to vibrant, inquiry-centered learning communities.
What's inside
Foundations of Change - Why industrial-era schooling falls short and how constructivist, Socratic, and neuroscience insights point the way forward.
The Three Questions, Three Explorations(TM) Model - A step-by-step framework that teaches learners to formulate compelling questions, pursue evidence-based investigations, and synthesize knowledge across disciplines.
Strategic Top-Level Design - Systems-thinking tools to align curriculum, assessment, scheduling, and culture with an inquiry vision.
Leadership & Teacher Growth - Practical blueprints for principals and instructional coaches to cultivate facilitative teaching, build collective efficacy, and scale pilot successes across an entire district.
Case Studies from China's Jilin Province - Real-world stories that reveal what works-and what doesn't-when whole regions embrace inquiry.
Assessment Reimagined - Portfolio, performance, and analytics-enabled strategies that capture critical thinking, problem-solving, and authentic engagement instead of rote recall.
Pitfall Prevention Toolkit - How to sidestep formalism, ill-fitting "borrowed" reforms, rushed rollouts, and innovation for novelty's sake.
Who should read this book?
School and district leaders crafting long-term reform agendas.
Policy makers seeking evidence-based, scalable transformation models.
Teacher-educators and instructional coaches building inquiry expertise.
Researchers and graduate students exploring systemic change, learning science, and cross-cultural implementation.
Why it matters
Preparing learners for an unpredictable, idea-driven world demands more than incremental tweaks; it calls for a wholesale re-imagining of how knowledge is built. From Questions to Transformation delivers the roadmap-philosophy, strategy, and day-to-day practice-for turning every "Why?" into a catalyst for deeper learning and lasting educational equity.
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