From "Learn-to-answer" To "Learn-to-query"

The question consciousness and the inquiry ability are the important constituent of human's creation ability. There are obvious difference between the human's question consciousness and the inquiry ability as the creation ability. We. must value the question consciousness and the inquiry ability's cultivation, put the question consciousness and the inquiry ability on the first step to raise student's innovative ideology and the innovate ability because of thought dating from question, innovation dating from new question discovery.In the history of education, there are two kinds of different teaching values on question, one kind is the "Learn-to-answer" instruction values, the other is the "Learn-to-query" instruction values. The traditional "Learn-to-answer" instruction neglects the cultivation of the student's question consciousness and the inquiry ability, so that affects the development of the student's innovative ideology and innovative ability. The modern "Learn-to-query" instruction valuing the student's question consciousness and the inquiry ability cultivation on the contrary, is a instructing theory and strategy that a teacher teaches the students to learn questioning, raises student's question consciousness and the inquiry ability, promotes the students' innovation and creation ability development. Namely it is the instruction that a teacher teaches the student to learn inquiring, pondering, creating.So-called the "Learn-to-answer" instruction, is one kind of teaching ideas and educational models which take the teacher, the books, the classroom as the center, value the methods and the strategies that guides the students to grasp solving the ready-made question, to enhance the students' ability of answering and solving questions Its characteristic is pursues the goal view of inheritance, the deathly stiff curriculum view, the static knowledge view, the stereotypical method view, the hegemony teacher view, the inhuman student view, the sole appraisal view. In the manner of treating question, ft values teacher's questioning and despises the student's questioning; value the answer of questioning and contempt the process of questioning; value the content of questioning and contempt the method of questioning; value the form of questioning and contempt the essence of questioning. The long-time existent "Learn-to-answer" instruction makes the student's studying consciousness and capability not good, the innovation spirit and the innovation ability short, the practice spirit and the practice ability low, the ethical spirit and the moral personality abnormal, the esthetic consciousness and the esthetic ability unsatisfactory. There are profound school and society's cultural reasons in the existence of the "Learn-to-answer" instruction.The implementation of the " Leam-to-query" instruction is the necessity of the"learning-answering" instruction's development. It represents the reform and development tendency of the contemporary education and instruction. The research of"Learn-to-query" instruction has the profound theory and the practice significance. Theoretically speaking, the "Learn-to-query" instruction research is the extending and development of question teaching research, is the deepened and developing need for the theory of quality education, is the consummation and development's need of the new foundational education curriculum reformation theory. Says from the practice, The research of "Learn-to-query" instruction is advantageous in overcoming the"learning-answering" instruction's abuses, is advantageous in the enhancement of classroom instruction quality, is advantageous in students' intelligence, the ability and the individuality development, is advantageous in the transformation of teachers' teaching idea and the development of their professional quality, is advantageous in the development of teachers' scientific research consciousness and the scientific research ability, is advantageous in the development of teacher s' innovative ideology and innovative ability, is advantageous in the work carrying out the school's extracurricular activity, the work of class head-teacher, the communist young league and pioneer of china, is advantageous in the enhancement of the school teaching quality and the overall education quality.The "Learn-to-query" instruction thought although is explicitly presented only in the present age, but it has its own history accumulation as other teaching thought. There is also some correlative thought spark flashing in the different historical period of the human development. It is a pity that these thought have not been able to obtain the attention which the education system and the society should give. In the contemporary social development and the education practice, the day by day incisive social question and the intensive education contradictory, urgently summon the vigorous development of the "Learn-to-query" instruction. the "Learn-to-query" instruction not only has the reliable realistic foundation, but also the deep theory foundation of the philosophy (specially postmodernism philosophy), the psychology (mainly includes motive theory, need theory, constructivism learning theory), the pedagogy (mainly includes subjective education theory, lifelong education theory, inquiring theory), the brain science and so on.The question, query a question and the inquiry ability is the "Learn-to-query" instruction research's basic question. The issues such as question connotation and type, the inquiry way and method, the structure of inquiry ability and so on is all worth discussing. the " Learn-to-query" instruction's substance is also issues that must not be avoided in this topic's research., the "Learn-to-query" instruction is the teaching that teacher teaches the student to learn the skill and the method of questioning, its essence is one kind of creative and developing teaching. It has characters such as democracy, subjectivity, enlightening, creativity, reciprocal and so on.The value of teaching theory lies in the directing of teaching practice. the "Learn-to-query" instruction theory also must move towards the practice. Its basic way is constructs the "Learn-to-query" instruction model and the practice strategy, the "Learn-to-query" instruction model includes the basic step such as the building of democratic atmosphere, the establishing of question situation, the inspiring of student questioning, the questioning, the problem's analyzing and solving, the reconsidering of the question and so on. the "Learn-to-query" instruction practice strategy is bountiful, mainly includes the practical strategy of the " Learn-to-query" instruction model and the cultivation strategy of the student quering ability.The "Learn-to-query" instruction is a complex system. It must be paid great attention to the " Learn-to-query" instruction culture ecological environment construction for guaranteeing the "Learn-to-query" instruction idea effectivelyimplementing.