ABSTRACT
Enquiry-based courses, as they have been described in this book, are predicated upon a fundamental assumption about the nature of knowledge – that knowledge is a personal invention. The argument is that for knowledge to be truly authentic it requires the knower more than merely to assimilate the information which is available to him or her. A positive act of construction is required whereby the knower tests the information against the yardstick of personal experience. The quality of the emerging understanding is dependent upon the ability of the knower to evaluate the information in a prudent and exhaustive fashion. Each person’s knowledge is the next person’s information. In transmitting information we should not be persuaded that we are fabricating identical forms of knowledge.
