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 * Discussion 6 due by noon on 11/7/11 (Please note that is the day that we reconvene) **

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In the first part of our course studies, we’ve gained some knowledge and insight on what it means to engage in Multicultural Education, social justice advocacy and cultural identity (at-large and on a personal level) in our schools and in society. We’ve learned that school culture and social structures are powerful determinants of how student and teachers learn to perceive themselves and each other. We now begin to moving into Social Studies & Historical content and Social Studies curriculum development. We begin with work by Paula Rogovin and the Research Workshop Model

**Discussion Prompt:**
Drawing on your field work and our trip to the African Burial Ground, address the following topics:
 * What do you believe to be the role of inquiry in the classroom?
 * How is student inquiry positioned in the curriculum in your field placement? (central to curriculum, not considered at all, somewhere in between?)
 * How does inquiry connect to notions of social justice and multicultural education?
 * How would an inquiry-based apporach help learning communities unpack historical content such as the content presented through African Burial Ground site.

Lookin' forward to the discussion,

What do you believe to be the role of inquiry in the classroom