ABSTRACT
Hart,S. (2000) Thinking Through Teaching:A framework for enhancing participation and learning, London: David Fulton; see pp. 19-20.
Hart’s innovative thinking framework offers a tool that teachers can employ for reflecting on and learning from experience, and for generating soundly based ideas to guide the development of practice. In doing so, the author uses ‘five questioning moves’ (see p. 18):
1. making connections . . . which takes into account the immediate and wider learning environment;
2. contradicting . . . which takes into account our own expectations and assumptions; 3. taking a child’s-eye view . . . which takes into account the child’s meanings and agendas; 4. noting the impact of feelings. . .which takes into account how our feelings shape our
interpretations; 5. postponing judgement . . . which takes into account the limits of what we know.
