Authentic Enquiry
Authentic Enquiry is a highly engaging process for learning, problem-solving or innovation that uses genuine, self-motivated curiosity to make it happen.
Coaching for Enquiry is used by accredited practitioners to facilitate the nine step enquiry process, initiating genuine interest, connecting with sources of knowledge, enabling assessment and improving performance.
In Schools, Colleges
and Universities
Authentic enquiry enables students to set questions and pursue their own learning within the context of a required curriculum. It develops rigorous enquiry skills as well as knowledge and understanding.
Benefits in Education
Authentic Enquiry can help you:
- Stimulate curiosity
- Increase student engagement in learning
- Link personal interest to curriculum needs
- Incorporate assessment criteria in own learning
- Enable knowledge construction
- Develop agency, autonomy and identity
- Improve the quality of teaching for learning
Who is it for?
Head Teachers and Teachers in schools and Heads of Department and Lecturers in higher education who want to improve the quality and effectiveness of pupil and student learning. Please contact us
The providers of school improvement and professional development services may want to include Authentic Enquiry in their own range of services. More…
In Corporate Organisations
and Business Schools
In technical, professional, leadership and executive development, Authentic Enquiry can improve quality and effectiveness of learning and coaching. Authentic Enquiry is an ideal enabler of authentic leadership at any level.
Benefits in Organisations
Authentic Enquiry can help you:
- Capture intrinsic motivation
- Improve employee engagement in learning
- Increase impact of development programmes
- Align expertise to resolve complex issues
- Improve innovation and breakthrough
- Develop authentic leadership
- Improve the quality of facilitation and coaching
Who is it for?
HR, OD and L&D Directors, Heads of Talent and Leadership Development and those leading programmes who want to improve the quality and effectiveness of learning, engagement and performance improvement. Please contact us
The providers of learning and development, consulting and coaching services may want to include Learning Power in their own range of services. More…
Authentic Enquiry in Action
Here’s an illustration of the process of Authentic Enquiry that assists students in education or leaders in organisations to define and pursue their own enquiry – from initial idea to real world performance. The process is facilitated by a trained facilitator, teacher or coach and it can be adapted for use by both individuals and teams.
Professional Accreditation
Teachers and improvement advisers in education and learning facilitators and coaches in the corporate sector may be interested in our professional learning and accreditation services. These include short one and two day workshops leading to recognition as a trained facilitator of Authentic Enquiry supported by Enquiry Blogger.
Our professional accreditation may also lead to a Masters degree awarded by the University of Bristol.
Getting Started
We can facilitate Authentic Enquiry for you OR we can train you to do it for yourselves. For the latter, we recommend you complete an in-house, customised Authentic Enquiry workshop which will include completing an enquiry of your own. Independent advisers, consultants and coaches can take part in one of our open programmes. To help us offer the right suggestion, please contact us.
Optimise the Benefit with Integrated Solutions
Our services are based on a foundation of research and a common set of person-centred learning principles – it means our services work well together as integrated learning improvement solutions:
Use Learning Power to improve learning capacity, potential and growth
Use Authentic Enquiry to increase engagement, innovation and effectiveness
Use Learner-Centred Practice to improve the motivation and achievement of learners
Use Systems Leadership to create a culture of learning, improvement and achievement
For More Information
For more information or to discuss how we might help you improve learning in your context, please contact us.