Typology of pupils' questions on the first level of primary school

Abstract

This work discusses the types of pupils' questions that can be heard at the first level of primary school. The goal of this text is to theoretically analyse pupils' questions during observation of tuition and to thoroughly classify them into the types that are most often used and have been previously described in expert pedagogic theory. This work will also focus on identification of pupils' questions that focus on the content of tuition. Previous research of pupils' questions demonstrates that most of these are of a general nature. In our approach we will endeavour to find out why this is. These questions also play a role during tuition, but do not provide a current picture of the pupil's learning activities with schoolwork. We tried to register the important differences between pupils' questions directed towards the teacher and questions directed towards peers and to specify their basic purpose during tuition. We also found it interesting to observe which of the aforementioned questions has a more satisfactory function for the pupil himself.