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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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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
The Measurement and Conceptualization of Curiosity
In this study, the authors tried various methods to measure and conceptualize curiosity. A sample of 369 education students (103 men, 266 women) who were attending universities on the East Coast of the United States completed 5 paper-and-pencil curiosity measures … Continue reading
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The Curiosity Cycle: Preparing Your Child for the Ongoing Technological Explosion
Through curiosity, children carve out concepts from the environment that they assemble into models to describe the world. Children then test those models to see how well they predict what they observe, and they use the results from those experiments … Continue reading
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