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Curiosity and Wonder: Cue Into Children’s Inborn Motivation to Learn
Children are born eager to learn. Curious by nature, you can’t keep them fromexploring as they try to comprehend their environment. Everything is a wonder.Children’s curiosity is first focused on you: mom and dad. You’re an amazing miracle to gaze … Continue reading
The Relationship Between Curiosity, Engagement, and Student Development
This paper examines relationships among curiosity, engagement, and student development across five domains—(1) cognitive complexity, (2) knowledge acquisition, construction, integration, and application, (3) humanitarianism and civic engagement, (4) intrapersonal and interpersonal development, and (5) practical competence. Although extant research examines … Continue reading
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Curiosity-Driven Study: A Paradigm Revisited
Research has undergone tremendous changes over the years, as technology grows more sophisticated and definitions of what research continues to evolve. Despite the number of paradigms being developed to address different needs and wants, curiosity has been surprisingly overlooked in recent years. This … Continue reading
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Corporate Social Science and the Loss of Curiosity
“Social science is an enterprise of the modern world.” Peter Taylor reflects on the directions in which social science has moved in the twenty years since the issuing of the Gulbenkian Commission’s report, Open the Social Sciences. While a strong … Continue reading
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How to Bring Self-Organized Learning Environments to Your Community
Educators of all kinds (parents, teachers, community leaders, etc) play an important role in both teaching kids how to think, and giving them room to feed their curiosity. The SOLE approach embraces a process where kids learn how to ask … Continue reading
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The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity
Kids walk into schools full of wonder and questions. How you, as an educator, respond to students’ natural curiosity can help further their own exploration and shape the way they learn today and in the future. The traditional system of … Continue reading
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Creativity in Education: Clearness in Perception, Vigorousness in Curiosity
This article is based on the proposition that a process of creativity may be experienced in education in situation where an individual’s (learner’s) perception is kept clear and his curiosity is vigorous. An attempt to clarify this proposition is made … Continue reading
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood
Despite American education’s mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Susan Engel offers a highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it … Continue reading
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The Future Belongs to the Curious
What is curiosity? The word is associated with the irregular form of the Latin verb cura, which can mean worry or care about or cure. The word closest in meaning is inquisitive, which also has a Latin root: quaere, to … Continue reading
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Real Learning is a Creative Process
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough … Continue reading
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