Children's Questions Across Cultures: A Universal Tool for Learning?

• In Event: Creative Thinking and Learning Within a Global Context

Abstract

Question-asking has been suggested to play an important role in cognitive development and learning, yet a limited amount of research has investigated how children use questions within formal educational settings across cultures. Systematically researching question-asking and its role in learning across cultures may inform educational practices and the explicit teaching of the skill of question-asking. Implications for future cross-cultural research on question-asking are outlined.

Authors

• Andrew Powers Minigan, The Right Question Institute

• Codie Kane, The Right Question Institute

• Dan Rothstein, Right Question Project

• Luz Santana, The Right Question Institute