school : institution where children learn the answers without asking questions ?
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School: institution where children
learn the answers without asking
questions?
Jana M. Havigerová, Kateřina Juklová University of Hradec Králové
Czech Republic
Introduction
• natural part of cognitive process
• the trigger of thinking• type of question and type of
thinking• asking questions as a tool of
intentional cognitive development
The power of asking question
Information behaviour
– developed by the need of getting information(Wilson, 1981)
– important part of information literacy in contemporary information society
– questioning skill as a predictor of information behaviour
Research objectives
• Analyze questions asked in natural Czech school conditions
Research procedure
Czech National Corpus Schola 2010
• transcript of spoken language from basic and secondary school lessons
• 204 lessons in 115 different classes
• 47 teachers and 2347 pupils• 20 489 identified questions
Notes
Results
Number of question asked during one lesson
Statistics
The number of questionsduring one lesson
Teacher Class One pupil
Total
N 204 204 204
Mean 80,89 19,36 1,11 100,25
Median 74,50 15,00 1,00 94,00
St.deviation 43,195 16,344 1,45 45,469
Who asks more questions?
Statistics
The number of questioners
Boys Girls Boys Girls
N 204 204 Quartile 25 2,00 1,00
Mean 4,07 2,84 Quartile 50 4,00 2,00
Median 4,00 2,00 Quartile 75 5,75 4,00
St.deviation 2,92 2,35
ConclusionsAsking questions in Czech schools
– teacher ask scarse amount of questions
– most asked questions are low-level questions activating memory, not thinking
– teachers do not encourage pupils to ask questions
– pupils questions are often discouraged (predominately negative content and emotional response)
Notes
Thank you for your questions
Kateřina Juklová [email protected] M. Havigerová [email protected]
Faculty of EducationUniversity of Hradec Kralove
Czech republic