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Inquiry education (sometimes known as the inquiry method) is a student-centered method of education focused on asking questions. Students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers; teachers are encouraged to avoid giving answers when this is possible, and in any case to avoid giving direct answers in favor of asking more questions. The method was advocated by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their book Teaching as a Subversive Activity.

Gardner Campbell (to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver in October last year) The Ecologies of Yearning - http://openedconference.org/2012/program/archive-of-sessions/day-1/day1-9am-c300/ The talk is not about cooperation or collaboration, but about 'opening' as a way of learning. He draws heavily on Gregory Bateson's 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' and his ideas about learning as a 'double bind' experience and transcontextual moments.

Jane Vella, the founder of Global Learning Partners, gained her insights on adult education from the thousands of participants she met over her 40 years of teaching in Africa, Asia and North America. Jane's academic research into the work of theorists Paulo Freire, Malcolm Knowles, Kurt Lewin, and Benjamin Bloom confirmed what she saw in the communities where she had worked:  that adults learn best through a "dialogue" that takes place in an atmosphere of mutual respect and safety, and with learning designs that are grounded in the reality of their lives.