UNIT 1

Nature of
Inquiry and
Research

JOSEPHINE V. LIM

Teacher
Intended Learning Outcomes

1. Use some new terms you have learned in expressing their worldviews freely:
2. Explain your understanding of the term “inquiry”
3. Outline all the ideas you have learned about inquiry;
4. Infer about societal issues through speculative thinking;
5. Enumerate the benefits of inquiry-based learning ;
6. Identify a question as simple or complex based on the kind of thinking it elicits
from you and
7. Compose an essay to prove the extent of your understanding of inquiry
 INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING

Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about your

surroundings. This takes place in many ways and 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 varied thinking strategies that you ought to
perform in discovering and understanding the object of your inquiry is
an active learning process.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING

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 ac like
a scientists who are inclined to think logically or systematically in
seeking evidence to support their conclusion about something,
Beginning with whatever experience or background knowledge you
have, you proceed like scientist with your inquiry by imagining,
speculating, interpreting, and creating something out of what you
discovered.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING

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 the solution. Whatever knowledge you have about
your world bears the influence of your cultural, sociological, institutional, or
ideological understanding of the world.(Badke 2012)