Inquiry

The CJC Authentic Curriculum emerged from the values and pedagogy, as identified by the school community, as essential ingredients in the teaching and learning programs of its students.

The employment of the Inquiry model has provided the framework for the development of Units of Inquiry. Links to VELS and POLT enrich and substantiate the implementation of these units.

Nine universal concepts have been identified as the organising concepts around which the inquiry units have been developed. The inquiry incorporates the school values of harmony, respect, responsibility, integrity and love of learning as well as the pedagogy of inquiry, thinking, cooperative, global and self-evaluating.

Systems: we live in a world of interacting systems in which any individual element can and does affect others.

Change: is universal and inevitable.

Power: can be considered as influence or authority.

Justice: understanding what makes something fair or unfair, just or unjust.

Reality: what is considered to be real or not real.

Mind: what counts as being a mind and what counts as having a mind.

Art: what counts as art and why it exists.

Culture: can be considered as a sense to identity.

Science: is ever present in the universe.

Each unit of inquiry would include investigations and research into issues surrounding relevant topics that illustrate the universal concept.

 

WHAT IS ART?

WHAT IS ART?

STUDENT WORK: Anyone for soup?

STUDENT WORK: Hands-on colour and shape

STUDENT WORK: Replicating Picasso

STUDENT WORK: Sunset silouette

STUDENT WORK: Cool Collage

STUDENT WORK: Sensational sculpture