It is important to note that the pedagogical vision that the PMU advocates is very much consistent with the descriptive academic advising model that it promotes. This inquiry-based, instructional model puts a premium on exploring the topic under inquiry through an interpretation of the available resources that address and assess a topic or a subject. Exploring the topic allows students to self construct funds of knowledge related to the subject under inquiry. After constructing the required funds of knowledge, it is recommended that students collaborate to further share information and reflectively enter into a conversation with the minds of the others ( in our case the advisor) and the world outside of their communal conceptual schemas to enrich their understanding of the issue before they take decisive academic decisions.



The premise that stands behind this constructivist and student-centered teaching view speaks of the advising model that centralizes collaboration, self-exploration, and scaffolded academic self planning. The following diagram (Figure 2) explains the interrelatedness of the instructional and the advising models that PMU promotes and aspires to accomplish.