Teacher research articles share intentional and
systematic inquiry done by teachers with the goals of gaining insights into teaching and learning, becoming more reflective practitioners, effecting changes in the classroom or school, and improving the lives of children.
Not exact matches
More significant, perhaps, is the fact that my proposal
does not call for the synoptic, synthetic
inquiry Wood terms «
systematic theology.»
That created a one - way movement in theological
inquiry in which practical theology depends on
systematic and moral theology, but they
do not depend on it.
When one's aim is «to integrate these three basic
inquiries in a comprehensive and constructive fashion» (50), one is
doing systematic theology.
That
does not mean that major contributions toward an
inquiry into the nature of socioreligious phenomena were not made long before, but as an organized
systematic discipline (emancipated from the older disciplines in and from which it developed) the sociology of religion is of recent date.
That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of
inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to
do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of
systematics.
A pervasive curiosity, an objective tolerance that finds all shades of opinion interesting and respectable as long as they
do not interfere with liberty of
inquiry and belief, a
systematic pursuit of truth in spite of traditions and doubts — these, much more than a taste for sentimental botany and rhapsodical astronomy, were the product of the five years or so that Voltaire spent in active pursuit of science at Cirey with Madame
du Châtelet; like his heroes, he has learned from science, and achieved in his own way a synthesis, quite different from that of the seventeenth century.