Entering a new world

       A new place

       Wow,

       A new kind of me

       Stronger, smarter, better

       Live to learn

       Love to learn

       To be a scholar, me.

             --LJA Student

Standard Two: Constructing Knowledge

Enduring Understanding:

The Learning Community…

• recognizes that each discipline has a discrete body of knowledge and inherent tools (i.e. scientific method) supporting interdisciplinary habits of thinking (i.e. inquiry).

• understands that people construct knowledge through social and cultural frameworks.

• acknowledges that research is both applied to real world situations with practical applications and used to further existing understanding.

• supports both students and teachers to learn, question, reflect and participate in meaning making.

• builds critical consciousness through active participation in a democratic society including the ability to name, act on, and transform injustice.

Essential Questions:

• How do people construct and apply knowledge?

• To what extent do discrete bodies of knowledge and inherent tools support interdisciplinary habits of thinking?

• How are members of the learning community participating in the cycle of making meaning?

• What is the relationship between knowledge and power within and across disciplines?

• How does knowledge work in both democratic and undemocratic ways (to liberate or dominate)?

• To what extent does the study in question have value beyond the classroom and how will students take this learning and own it beyond the walls of LJA?