1. Education is a moral undertaking and therefore our practice
within education must be open to inquiry.
2. To engage in philosophical inquiry is to theorize, to analyze,
to critique, to raise questions about, and/or to pose as problematic
that which we are investigating.
3. Theory can be derived from other systems of thought; derived
from social, political, and/or economic situations; and
constructed from practice.
4. Philosophical inquiry is concerned with (i.e., “inquires
into”) the nature of reality, knowledge, and value.
5. Philosophical inquiry can be descriptive, normative, and/or
analytic. It can be interpretive and/or critical.
6. Modes of philosophical inquiry have interests: Interpretive
inquiry has an interest in understanding, critical inquiry has
an interest in emancipation.
7. Critical inquiry is a mode of philosophical inquiry that questions
reality, looking for contradictions. Critical inquiry is
change/action-oriented.