In spite of its prevalence and importance, questioning in education has been underestimated and misconceptualized. The major reason for this has been that most studies on questioning have been heavily dependent on the paradigm of positivism. In this p...
In spite of its prevalence and importance, questioning in education has been underestimated and misconceptualized. The major reason for this has been that most studies on questioning have been heavily dependent on the paradigm of positivism. In this paper I reviewed past I reviewed past studies on teacher's questioning and criticized their major drawbacks and limitations which are unavoidable consequences of
the dependence on the paradigm of positivism.
It is fairly safe to say that the main purpose of positivistic studies is to clarify the objectively effective types of questioning. These studies are based on the assumption that content-proof, context-proof, student-proof, teacher-proof effective questions exist, and that the types of questions can be graded in terms of their effectiveness.
But the perspective that excludes the process of interpretation and intervention of the subject was criticized in this paper. Further, I emphasized that if the characteristics of the learners and the content were not considered appropriately, the impact of the teacher's questioning would be meager or negative.
And in this study, three types of teacher's questioning were identified according to the purposes and the roles: 'Diagnosing questions', 'Dissolving questions', 'Illustrating questions', and the useful ways to apply those questions were suggested.