Research as inquiry: Design a teaching instruction.

Explore the psychological impact of crime on teenagers in Cape Town

                  

Learning outcome: 

Students should be able to:

•  determine an appropriate scope of investigation.
•  employ critical skills to evaluate information.
•  organize information in meaningful ways.

Design 3 activities:

1. Go on the internet and find 3 sholarly conversations about crime in Cape Town by C Lemanski.Comment and add your opinion and post the link on twitter. Invite you twitter contacts into this conversation, ask their views and how they feel about it.
2. Write a two page essay without any aid using your own head knowledge. Evaluate sources cited in scholarly conversations and review the 3 scholarly sources with yours. Make changes if you have to. 
3. Formulate research questions and decide what type of research methods will go well with the study.

Disposition:

1. Activity one links to disposition: Consider research as an open-ended exploration and engagement with information.
2. Activity 2 links to the disposition:  Willingness to refine or change the direction, method, or scope of research based  on new insights
3. Activity 3 links to disposition:  Value intellectual curiosity in developing questions and learning new investigative methods.