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Lizzie Martin risks her life to solve a murder.Ī Rare Interest in Corpses introduces Lizzie Martin and childhood friend, Inspector Benjamin Ross as they investigate the death of a young girl. ![]() ![]() The importance of inquiry as an instructional approachĭewey emphasised the importance of inquiry as an instructional approach and has become associated with the discovery of learning and child-centred, progressive teaching approaches. “No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another….only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.….the joy which children themselves experience is the joy of intellectual constructiveness.” He believed that learning is a social, communal process requiring students to construct their own understanding based on personal experience. 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