Inquiry-based Learning

Inquiry Learning is a technique that is used to search and find out the truth, knowledge, and information using the question strategy either by doing interviews or distributing the questionnaire sheets among group of people and that process could be done by applying the human senses such as seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.

Inquiry based is different than the traditional educational, because traditional educational will discourage the process of inquiry; where the student will not be able to ask question which is totally different than the inquiry based especially when schools and students learn not to ask too many questions, instead to listen and the expected answers.

If we are going to talk about the importance we have to take in mind that Educators must understand the school needs to go for the data and information also it supports Educators by using questions it will allow the students to build on what they are already aware of and also it will encourage meta-cognitive thinking.

Individuals in human society transmit the knowledge; where it is important that the knowledge transmitted to all members of society especially when this transmission take place through schools, families and training courses. The Experts are working between the known and unknown.  

Moving from the importance of Inquiry based toward the application is not that difficult; where if we are going to talk about application there are many researches found that Inquiry can be applied in different disciplines. Individuals needs many perspectives to view the world from artistic, scientific, historic, economic and many other perspectives.

Finally with the outcome of Inquiry that should be useful knowledge about the natural and human-designed world. In addition an appropriate education should provide the individuals with different ways to view the world, how to communicate about it and how to copy the questions of daily living.

The questioning and researching are the two important parts of inquiry, where the knowledge that is achieved from questioning is cooperative with the context of learning; where the students should not be focusing on the content only but also needs to ask questions and to research for the answers of it.

Well designed Inquiry based learning activities should be set in conceptual context to help the students to accumulate the knowledge whenever they study.

Finally the Inquiry in Education should be about understanding the world that they live, work, learn, and communicate in.