THE HEASLY THINKING SKILLS SYSTEM: COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY AND EDU-TENSEGRITY

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 1 - 12, 28.05.2018

Berise Therese Heasly

Abstract

Having
been fully involved in the Philosophy for Children pedagogy (devised by
Professor Matthew Lipman five decades ago), I have integrated fully his
Community of Inquiry classroom strategies to teach understanding about virtues,
values and ethics to promote democratic procedures, higher-order thinking
skills and authentic response to student questions. This paper details four
pedagogical steps in the Heasly Thinking Skills System:

a.    
The art
and skill of asking questions.

b.    
The ‘ME’
diagram.

c.    
The Six
Steps of Decision-making.

d.    
The Heasly
Uncertainty Grid – known by my students as the HUG/BUG.

The
objectives and purposes of my refreshed theory of education, called
EDU-TENSEGRITY, include the Heasly Thinking Skills System.

Keywords

Edu-Tensegrity, Heasly, Thinking Skills System

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