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 Nature of
Inquiry and
Research
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○ Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about
your surroundings. This takes place in many ways,
and one of these is inquiry. Inquiry is a learning
process that motivates you to obtain knowledge or
information about people, things, places, or events.
Meaning of inquiry You do this by 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 varied thinking strategies that range from
lower-order to higher-order thinking skills such as
inferential, critical, integrative and creative thinking.
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○ 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
Meaning of inquiry process.
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Meaning of inquiry

Inquiry is a problem-solving technique.

You proceed like detective and

scientist with your inquiry by
imagining, speculating,
interpreting , criticizing, and
creating something out of what
you discovered.
INQUIRE
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Governing principles or Foundation of Inquiry

3 educational theories/foundation:

John Dewey’s theory of connected

experience for exploratory and
reflective thinking
Lev Vygotsky’s zone of proximal
development
Jerome Bruner’s theory

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ACTIVITY TIME!