By: DR. REYNALDO A.

NAMA
Look for Discover truths
information by by
asking various investigating
questions about on your chosen
the thing you topic
are curious scientifically.
about.
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INQUIRE
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CRUCIAL
What comes to your mind
when you hear Inquiry –
based Learning? Make
inferences.
 Learning is your way of obtaining
knowledge about surroundings. This takes
place in many ways, and one of these is
inquiry, which many people in the field of
education consider effective. Inquiry is a
learning process that motivates you to
obtain knowledge or information about
people, things, places, or events.
 You do this by investigating or asking
questions about something you are
inquisitive about. It requires you to collect
data, meaning, facts, and information
about the object of your inquiry, and
examine such data carefully.
 In your analysis, you execute varies
thinking strategies that range from lower-
order to higher – order thinking skills
such as inferential, critical, integrative, and
creative thinking. These are top-level
thinking strategies that you ought to
perform in discovering and understanding
the object of your inquiry. Engaging
yourself in many ways of thinking, you
come to conclude that inquiry is an active
learning process.
 Putting you in a situation where you
need to probe, investigate, or ask
questions to find answers or solutions to
what you are worried or doubtful about
inquiry is a problem-solving technique.
 Solving a problem by being
inquisitive, you tend to act like scientists
who are inclined to think logically or
systematically in seeking evidence to
support their conclusions about something.
 Beginning with whatever experience
or background knowledge you have, you
proceed like scientist with your inquiry by
imagining, speculating, interpreting,
criticizing and creating something out of
what you discover.
 Inquiry elevates your thinking power.
It makes you think in different ways,
enabling you to arrive at a particular idea
or understanding that will motivate you to
create something unique, new, or
innovative for your personal growth as well
as for the world.
 Inquisitive thinking allows you to shift
from one level of thought to another. It
does not go in a linear fashion; rather, it
operates in an interactive manner.
 Solving a problem, especially social
issues, does not only involve yourself but
other members of the society too. Hence,
inquiry, as a problem – solving technique,
includes cooperative learning because any
knowledge from members of the society
can help to make solution.
Whatever knowledge you have about your
world bears the influence of your cultural,
sociological, institutional, or ideological
understanding of the world. (Badke 2012)
 Inquiry-based learning gets support
from these educational theories serving as
its foundation:

John Dewey’s theory of connected

experience for exploratory and reflective
learning.
Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal
development (ZPD)

Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’

varied world perceptions for their own
interpretative thinking of people and things
about them.
1. Elevates interpretative thinking though
graphic skills.

2. Improves student learning abilities.

3. Widens learners’ vocabulary.

4. Facilitates problem-solving acts.

5. Increases social awareness and cultural
knowledge.
6. Encourages cooperative learning.
7. Provides mastery of procedural
knowledge.
8. Encourages higher-order thinking
strategies.
9. Hastens conceptual understanding.