10 strategies and 3 policies for creating Wonderfull-learning
Conijn J. M., Rietdijk, W., Broekhof, E., Andre, L., & Schinkel, A. (2022). A theoretical framework and questionnaire for wonder-full education. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 54(3), 423–444. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2021.1942992
Wonder as a learning outcome: The students will be able to experience wonder "is to perceive something as strange or beyond current comprehension" (Conijn et al., 2022, p. 423).
Wonder s a mix of surprise, the importance of what one is contemplating, and the awareness that one's knowledge is incomplete. I liked most that, according to the authors, wonder does not disappear with a sense of understanding, unlike curiosity. Even if you understand the physical processes behind the rainbow, you will not stop wondering about it. It looks like wondering is a "perpetual motion machine" for learning.
Teaching strategies to achieve wonder:
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Teacher sensitivity
Be sensitive to children's personal wonder experience.
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Teacher as a role model
Display and share your personal wonder experiences and fascinations
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Exploration and experimentation
Explore and experiment by creating conditions for exploration, theory-building, hypothesis testing, and reflection.
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Meaning making
Guide students to construct their own meanings and understandings about different concepts and phenomena.
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Stimulate imagination
Stimulate the students' imagination, for example, by making narrative-based lesson structure and asking student's for creating stories.
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Defamiliarising the familiar
Guide children to find the strange, mysterious, and wonderful in the everyday.
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Encourage contemplation
Encourage attentive awareness, sensory rather than cognitive, to what presents itself in the moment, in the outer as well as the inner world.
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Creating Enriched environment
to inspire students and provide opportunities for exploration and discovery.
POLICIES for supporting wonder-full learning
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Less focus on test and method centred education
Stimulates / allows teachers to take time during lessons for students' interests, as well as for their own, which may lead student's to discover new interests.
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Enriched education
Offer an enriched environment.
"if a school wants to promote wonder in children, there should be time for 'aimless' exploration"
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Child-focused education
Stimulate students to be curious and inquisitive, to engage all their senses, to make a personal connection with the subject matter and to discover their own specific interests.
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