NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
INQUIRY – to look for
information by asking
various questions about the
thing you are curious about
NATURE OF INQUIRY
AND RESEARCH
RESEARCH – to discover
truths by investigating on
your chosen topic
scientifically.
A. NATURE OF INQUIRY
1. INQUIRY – a learning
process that motivates you
to obtain knowledge or
information about people,
things, places, or events.
HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
1. Investigating or asking
questions about something
you are inquisitive about
HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
2. Collect data, meaning,
facts, and information
about the object of your
inquiry and examine such
data carefully.
HOW YOU DO INQUIRY
3. Execute varied thinking
strategies that range from
lower-order to higher-order
thinking skills (inferential,
critical, integrative and
creative thinking)
A. NATURE OF INQUIRY
2. INQUIRY – a problem-solving
technique acting like a scientist
by imagining, speculating,
interpreting, criticizing and
creating something of what you
discovered.
FOUNDATIONS OF INQUIRY
1. John Dewey’s theory of
connected experiences for
exploratory and reflexive
thinking.
FOUNDATIONS OF INQUIRY
2. Lev Vygotsky’s Zones of
Proximal Development (ZPD)
that stresses the essence of
provocation and scaffolding in
learning.
FOUNDATIONS OF INQUIRY
3. Jerome Bruney’s theory on
learners’ varied world
perceptions for their own
interpretative thinking of
people and things around
them.
ELEMENTS OF INQUIRY
1. Changing knowledge
2. Creativity
3. Subjectivity
4. Socio-cultural factors
5. Sensory experiences
6. Higher- order thinking
strategies
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
1. Elevates interpretative
thinking through graphic
skills
2. Improves student learning
abilities
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
3. Widens learner’s vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving
acts
5. Increases social awareness
and cultural knowledge
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
6. Encourages cooperative
learning
7. Provides mastery of
procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-order
thinking skills
BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED
LEARNING
9. Hasten conceptual
understanding