Abstract: This paper gives a cursory view of the nature of critical inquiry, as well as highlighting some of the core advantages that critical inquiry holds to improve teaching and learning for teachers. This paper proposes critical inquiry as a valuable tool to be included in pre-service teacher education, as it equips pre-service teachers with needed and valuable inquiry skills, and an awareness of how to facilitate growth and success in their own teaching once they become in-service teachers. How critical inquiry could be spread over the four years of study of the pre-service teachers to ensure a spiral development thereof, is proposed. Sample assignments for critical inquiry are also provided to support the intention of critical inquiry as proposed in this paper.
Keywords: action research, Creative Arts, problem-solving, critical self-reflection, collaborative critical inquiry.
Title: Critical Inquiry in pre-service teacher education: A vehicle to develop a critical inquiry approach in teaching Creative Arts
Author: Dr. Dennis Beukes
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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