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Young Questioners
YOUNG QUESTIONERS — YQ
THE SAFEGUARDED CHILD-FACING DIRECTION WITHIN QUESTION TO LEARN
Helping children learn how to question, see, understand and learn from the world environment safely and age-appropriately.
WHAT YOUNG QUESTIONERS IS
Young Questioners is the safeguarded child-facing direction within Question to Learn.
It is developed from the L2Q framework.
Young Questioners gives adults, parents, teachers, carers, educators, schools, educational settings and responsible adults the route for helping younger children begin learning how to question safely and age-appropriately.
The role is not to tell children what to think.
The role is to help children learn how to question, see, understand and learn from what they are being shown.
Young Questioners is not the complete L2Q Questioning System.
It does not replace the L2Q Questioning Toolkit.
It provides the safeguarded child-facing direction through which adults can create and use age-appropriate materials developed from the L2Q framework while the framework’s meaning, structure and safeguarding remain intact.
Children should not be given another explanation to accept and repeat.
They should be helped to develop the ability to question, examine and decide for themselves what the evidence supports.
Young Questioners therefore supports learning through structured questioning, not belief.
WHY CHILDREN MATTER
Children’s minds and learning are shaped by the world environment before they fully understand what is shaping them.
Children learn from:
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adults
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behaviour
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education
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authority
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reward
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punishment
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information
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stories
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repetition
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emotional influence
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silence
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systems
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what is questioned
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what is protected
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what is accepted
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what is repeatedly presented as truth
Whatever children learn from today becomes part of the world tomorrow.
Children become parents.
Children become teachers.
Children become carers.
Children become workers.
Children become leaders.
Children become decision-makers.
Children become contributors to the world.
Children remain central because they become the future carriers of the world environment.
Children do not only learn from adults.
Children learn from other children.
They observe and influence each other.
When questioning, understanding and independent thinking develop in children, these developments can spread through groups of children, classrooms, schools, communities and future generations.
If children inherit repetition, repetition continues.
If children inherit dependency, dependency continues.
If children inherit following, following continues.
If children inherit silence, silence continues.
If children inherit fear, fear continues.
If children inherit created lies, created lies continue.
If children inherit structured evidence-based questioning, understanding advances.
If children inherit the ability to learn from the world environment itself, independent thinking advances.
Children should therefore receive the L2Q route safely, responsibly and as early as possible.
QUESTIONING AND LEARNING HOW TO QUESTION ARE NOT THE SAME
Children already ask questions.
That does not mean they have been given a structured method for learning how to question.
Children can ask questions while still accepting what is familiar, repeated, rewarded or presented by authority.
They can ask questions without knowing how to examine:
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where information came from
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what evidence supports it
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what shaped it
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who benefits from it
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whether behaviour matches what is claimed
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what discourages questioning
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what emotional influence is operating
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whether a narrative matches reality
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what psychological impact is being created
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whether the same standard is being applied everywhere
Young Questioners is not simply about encouraging more questions.
It is about helping children begin learning how to question through a safe, structured and age-appropriate route.
Questioning alone does not automatically produce understanding.
Information alone does not automatically produce understanding.
Understanding develops when children are helped to examine what they are learning from.
Learning how to question helps children see what is shaping their learning and perception.
Seeing develops understanding.
Understanding develops learning.
Learning develops independent thinking.
HOW YOUNG QUESTIONERS CONNECTS TO THE COMPLETE EDUCATION ROUTE
Young Questioners remains connected to the complete World Education Online structure.
The Book of Evidence provides the documented evidence foundation.
World Education Online provides the education infrastructure.
Learn to Question provides the structured questioning framework.
The L2Q Structured Evidence-Based Questioning System provides the complete nine-section education route.
The L2Q Questioning Toolkit provides the structured method for applying that route.
Question to Learn provides the movement and resource route for applying and sharing official L2Q-based questioning materials responsibly.
Q2L materials provide practical starting points for using the education route.
Young Questioners provides the safeguarded child-facing direction developed from the L2Q framework.
Human Advancement is the direct outcome of the L2Q Questioning System.
These parts are connected, but they do different jobs.
Young Questioners must remain connected to the Book of Evidence foundation, World Education Online, Learn to Question, the complete L2Q Questioning System, the L2Q Questioning Toolkit, Question to Learn and the same structured evidence-based questioning standard.
It must not become a separate belief system or an unrelated collection of activities.
WHAT YOUNG QUESTIONERS HELPS CHILDREN BEGIN TO QUESTION
Young Questioners materials should help children begin questioning the world environment in ways appropriate to their age and understanding.
Children can begin learning to ask:
SOURCE AND ORIGIN
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Where did this come from?
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Who created it?
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What shaped it?
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Is this the complete story?
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Has anything been changed or left out?
EVIDENCE STANDARD
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What evidence supports this?
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Can the evidence be examined?
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Is this information, opinion or evidence?
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Does behaviour support what is being claimed?
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Is anything missing or contradicted?
INCENTIVE AND GAIN
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Who benefits?
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Is money influencing this?
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Is somebody being rewarded?
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Is somebody afraid of losing something?
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What behaviour is being encouraged?
CHARACTER AND CONSISTENCY
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Do actions match words?
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Has the same behaviour happened before?
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Is the same standard being followed?
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What happens when questions are asked?
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What repeated pattern can be seen?
PERMISSION TO QUESTION
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Am I allowed to ask questions?
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Are questions answered directly?
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Is somebody being discouraged from questioning?
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Is fear, ridicule or authority stopping questions?
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What remains protected because people do not ask?
EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE
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What am I being encouraged to feel?
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Is fear replacing evidence?
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Is anger preventing examination?
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Is loyalty protecting a contradiction?
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Would this remain convincing without the emotional presentation?
NARRATIVE AND REALITY
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What story is being presented?
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What does the available evidence show?
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What has been included?
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What has been left out?
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Does reality support the story?
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
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How is this affecting the way I think or feel?
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Is it creating understanding or confusion?
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Is it helping me examine or demanding that I believe?
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What happens when the same message is repeated?
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Is fear, pressure, reward or punishment shaping perception?
APPLY THE SAME EVERYWHERE
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Am I applying the same standard to everything?
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Am I protecting something I already believe?
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Would I ask the same question about myself?
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Would I use the same evidence standard for everyone?
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What happens when different standards are used?
These questions should be adapted to the child’s age, understanding and learning environment.
They are not conclusions for children to repeat.
They are starting routes into examination, understanding and independent thinking.
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S MINDS THROUGH LEARNING HOW TO QUESTION
Protecting children’s minds means helping them develop the ability to examine what is shaping their understanding.
Children encounter information, stories, systems, authority, fear, pressure, reward, punishment, silence, repetition, emotional influence and repeated narratives before they fully understand how these affect perception.
Without a structured route, children can absorb what is repeated, protected or presented as truth without knowing how to examine it.
The L2Q route helps children begin learning to:
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distinguish information from evidence
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question where information originated
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compare claims with behaviour
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recognise emotional influence
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examine what repetition is doing
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understand how reward and punishment shape behaviour
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examine authority instead of blindly accepting it
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recognise what is hidden or left unexamined
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identify contradictions
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apply the same standard everywhere
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separate examination from belief
The purpose is to prevent unexamined information, created lies and repeated patterns from automatically shaping their understanding.
Children are not protected by being given another belief system.
They are protected by being given a structured route for learning how to question, examine and understand.
Why Children Need the L2Q Questioning Toolkit provides the fuller explanation of why children need structured questioning to protect their minds, advance learning, discern truth and break the repetition of deceit.
CHILDREN AND ADULTS LEARN TOGETHER
Young Questioners is not only about providing materials to children.
It is also about adults learning through application.
Parents learn.
Teachers learn.
Carers learn.
Educators learn.
Schools learn.
Communities learn.
When adults create safe and age-appropriate Young Questioners materials from the framework, they must think about:
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what children need to question
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how children understand information
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how the world environment shapes children
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how questioning can be introduced safely
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how evidence can be explained clearly
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how emotional influence affects learning
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how repeated patterns become accepted
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how to protect meaning without imposing belief
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how to help children develop independent thinking
The process of creating becomes part of the learning process.
People learn through application.
People learn through questioning.
People learn through creating.
People learn through helping others learn.
Young Questioners therefore helps children and adults learn together.
Education improves when children and adults are given the L2Q route and learn from it together.
CREATING YOUNG QUESTIONERS MATERIALS
Young Questioners gives adults, parents, teachers, carers, educators, schools, educational settings and responsible adults the route for creating age-appropriate child-facing materials from the L2Q framework.
Materials can use:
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stories
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questions
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pictures
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activities
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discussion prompts
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observation
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comparisons
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simple evidence exercises
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examples from the world environment
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age-appropriate questionnaires
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classroom or family discussion routes
Every material should have a clear learning purpose.
It should help children question, see, understand and learn.
It should remain connected to the L2Q framework.
It should be appropriate to the child’s age and level of understanding.
It should not impose a conclusion.
It should not create fear.
It should not pressure children to agree.
It should not be used for political or religious instruction, belief-based persuasion or personal influence over children.
It should not present unsupported information as truth.
It should not replace one protected narrative with another.
The role of the adult is to support questioning and examination, not control the conclusion.
SAFEGUARDING AND RESPONSIBILITY
Young Questioners operates within the Q2L adult-to-adult sharing structure.
Adults share the framework, information and official materials with other adults.
Where children are involved, the route remains through:
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parents
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teachers
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carers
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schools
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educational settings
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responsible adults
Young Questioners does not involve private, direct or unsupervised engagement with children.
Activities and materials should be used safely within family, school and educational settings through parents, teachers, carers and responsible adults.
Children should be free to ask questions.
Children should be free to disagree.
Children should not be pressured to accept a conclusion.
The purpose is understanding, not influence.
Safety, clarity, meaning and responsibility must remain central to every use of the materials.
PROTECTING THE MEANING OF YOUNG QUESTIONERS
Official Q2L materials must remain unchanged.
Young Questioners provides the safeguarded route for creating new age-appropriate materials from the L2Q framework.
That distinction must remain clear.
New Young Questioners materials must keep the framework’s meaning, structure and safeguarding intact.
They must not be:
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weakened
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misrepresented
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reversed
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removed from their correct meaning
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mixed with unrelated content
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attached to external narratives
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used for belief-based persuasion
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used for political or religious instruction
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used for personal influence over children
The restriction is not ownership.
The restriction is meaning.
Adults and educators can create different age-appropriate materials, but the structured evidence-based questioning foundation must remain intact.
If the meaning changes, the learning changes.
If the learning changes, the outcome changes.
The purpose is not restriction.
The purpose is protection of meaning.
THE AMAZING CHILDREN: JOURNEY TO A BETTER WORLD
The Amazing Children: Journey to a Better World is the child-facing World Education Book and story route into World Education Online.
The story uses characters, metaphor and imagery to introduce younger readers to questioning, behaviour, repeated patterns, truth, understanding and independent thinking in an age-appropriate way.
It provides a gateway into the wider Young Questioners route.
The story does not replace the L2Q Questioning Toolkit.
It introduces the need to question through a form younger children can engage with.
Adults can use the story to begin discussions such as:
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Why did the characters begin asking questions?
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What did they notice that others had accepted?
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What changed when they began to see differently?
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What do the robots represent?
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What do the magical glasses represent?
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Why did the characters need courage?
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What can happen when people question and learn together?
The book, audiobook, audiobook video, song, song video and downloadable versions provide different ways for children and adults to experience and discuss the story.
WHY CHILDREN NEED THE L2Q QUESTIONING TOOLKIT
Why Children Need the L2Q Questioning Toolkit explains why structured questioning is necessary for protecting children’s minds, advancing learning, discerning truth and breaking the repetition of deceit.
It explains why children need more than information.
It explains why questioning alone is insufficient.
It explains how emotional influence, authority, money, dependency, silence, repeated narratives and psychological impact can shape perception.
It explains why children need the same evidence and questioning standard applied everywhere.
The complete booklet provides the full official explanation.
CHILDREN’S QUESTIONNAIRE
The Children’s Questionnaire is a structured developmental tool designed to help children advance their ability to question, observe and think independently.
It provides a guided set of structured questions for calm and responsible discussion with adults.
The purpose is to support questioning, observation, understanding and independent thinking.
The questionnaire can help children:
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observe more carefully
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ask clearer questions
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examine what they are shown
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distinguish claims from evidence
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recognise repeated behaviour
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discuss questions with responsible adults
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develop confidence in examination
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begin developing independent thinking
YOUNG QUESTIONERS IN SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
Young Questioners gives schools and educational settings a safeguarded route for helping children begin learning how to question the world environment.
The route can support age-appropriate learning about:
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source and evidence
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behaviour and consistency
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incentive and gain
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permission to question
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emotional influence
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narratives and reality
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psychological impact
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applying the same standard everywhere
The role of teachers and educators is to help create an environment where questions can be examined safely, evidence can be considered and children can develop understanding.
Young Questioners can be used through:
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story discussions
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classroom questioning
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evidence-comparison activities
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observation exercises
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age-appropriate questionnaires
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project work
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family and school discussion routes
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official Q2L materials
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newly created materials that follow the L2Q framework and safeguarding requirements
The School Introduction Letter and Supporting Document provide the formal route for adults, parents, carers, teachers, schools and responsible adults who want to introduce the materials into educational settings.
YOUNG QUESTIONERS AND HUMAN ADVANCEMENT
Young Questioners helps the L2Q education route reach future generations.
It helps children learn how to question before repetition becomes something they automatically inherit and defend.
It helps adults learn while helping children.
It helps families learn together.
It helps teachers and students learn together.
It helps schools and communities learn from the same framework.
Children who learn how to question begin to see what is shaping their learning and perception.
Seeing develops understanding.
Understanding develops learning.
Learning develops independent thinking.
As understanding advances, created lies lose their ability to survive.
As independent thinking advances, following loses its route.
As children learn to apply the same standard everywhere, double standards lose their route.
Education improves when children and adults are given the L2Q route and learn from it together.
Children and adults learning together.
Families and schools learning together.
Teachers and students learning together.
Communities learning together.
Society learning from the world environment together.
Whatever children learn from today becomes part of the world tomorrow.
THE NEXT STEP
Read The Amazing Children: Journey to a Better World.
Use the Children’s Questionnaire.
Read Why Children Need the L2Q Questioning Toolkit.
Understand the Learn to Question framework.
Use the L2Q Questioning Toolkit.
Create safe and age-appropriate Young Questioners materials from the framework.
Keep the meaning, structure and safeguarding intact.
Where children are involved, use the responsible-adult route.
Help children learn how to question without telling them what to think.
Help children question.
Help children see.
Help children understand.
Help children learn.
Help children develop independent thinking.
LEARN TO QUESTION. QUESTION TO LEARN.
The world is the real school.
People cannot learn from what they cannot see.
Question.
See.
Understand.
Learn.
Develop independent thinking.
The objective is Human Advancement.