Annotated Bibliography 3

Sullivan, Peter, and David Clarke. "The Importance of Good Questioning." Communication in the Classroom (1991): 98-100. Web. 9 Mar 2011.  <http://www.merga.net.au/documents/MERJ_4_1_BookReview2.pdf>.

          Using Google’s advanced search technique for .pdf files, I stumbled upon this source written by two Professors who teach at Deakin University in Australia, primarily a school of linguistics.  This article is mainly speaking towards the school room setting, claiming that “Only 5 percent of the questions asked required the pupils to think independently or to give more than one answer.”  Sullivan and Clarke stress the importance of critical thinking in schools which will benefit the students more than pure memorization etc.  Comparing this with past sources, Sullivan and Clarke formulate the same conclusions in their writing which emphasize how questions promote more learning due to critical thinking than other strategies of learning.  This source relates the importance of labels in a museum by providing another set of voices reasoning the need for the promotion of critical thought.  As a school is the source of learning, a museum is a source for discovery, and for visitors to discover nuances of knowledge labels must stimulate critical thinking.