The Community of Inquiry: Where Does It Begin?

Abstract

Introduction:  In the traditional classroom, students sit in rows and face the teacher.  The teacher is the one who is considered to have amassed a great amount of knowledge and based on the theory that the mind of a child is like an empty vessel into which the knowledge to be acquired can be poured.  And not until a person has acquired a certain amount of information in this manner, is he considered able to pass on the information to others in a similar fashion.