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What is Educa tio nal Inquiry?

Educational inquiry is complex and involves understanding a range of understandings. To find out more about educational inquiry I completed these activities.

1. I read three papers of relevance to my professional area of interest and discussed them as exemplars of educational research.

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 2. While exploring paradigms in social research, a news item caught my attention and made me think of paradigms in the broader context.

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 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Using Bubble.us, I created a concept map describing my understnading of the elements and their relationships in educational inquiry.