Everyone Teaches, Everyone Learns: Reconceiving Communities of Inquiry

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2021

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Online discussions conceived as communities of inquiry (CoI) should place as much emphasis on learners teaching teachers as teachers teaching learners. First, in CoI as originally conceived, learners teaching teachers is a possibility. Teachers and learners are identified in the first instance as “participants.” Second, online discussions succeed or fail depending on participants’ level of engagement. Learner teaching and teacher learning increase the chances of success by increasing the ways participants can contribute to discussions. Third, given that participants in CoI are intended to search for and find collaborative solutions to shared problems, it is just as important that learners share their solutions with teachers as it is for teachers to share theirs with learners. Fourth, the CoI model is based on the American philosopher John Dewey’s “new order of conceptions.” Dewey demonstrated at his Laboratory School in Chicago that students, regardless of age, can contribute as much as or even more than teachers to the solution of shared problems. Finally, learner teaching is important even when it seems that teachers know “everything” and learners know “nothing.” Dewey taught us that students never learn exactly what teachers teach, because the experience they bring to it is unique to them. Sharing what they actually learn tests teacher knowledge, and together they take one step closer to achieving a truly collaborative solution to the problem being investigated.

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