Service-Learning Australia

Teachers using this methodology employ techniques of collaborative, inquiry-based learning to enable students to become more effective and discerning thinkers.  Teachers are first encouraged to think about their thinking and to ask their students particular questions for particular outcomes: To focus their students, to get them to make connections, to give examples and counter-examples, to clarify, to give reasons for their beliefs, etc.  Dr. Sandra Lynch has developed this clear, simple framework to assist teachers in asking these questions:  Philosophy in Schools Methodology as it Applies to Service-Learning.