THE IMPORTANCE OF

RESEARCH IN DAILY LESSON 1

LIFE 1
INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOMES
After this lesson, you should be able to:
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.

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INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Meaning of Inquiry
Learning is your way of obtaining knowledge about your 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.

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INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
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.
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.

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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 scientists with your inquiry by imagining, speculating,
interpreting, criticizing, and creating something out of what you discovered.
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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.

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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)

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GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OR
FOUNDATION OF INQUIRY
Inquiry-based Learning gets its support from these three educational
theories serving as its foundation:
1. John Dewey’s theory of connected experiences for exploratory and
reflective thinking;
. Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) that stresses the
essence of provocation and scaffolding in learning; and
3. Jerome Bruner’s theory on learners’ varied world perceptions for their
own interpretative thinking of people and things around them.

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GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OR
FOUNDATION OF INQUIRY
Backed up by all these theories, inquiry, as a way of learning,
concerns itself with these elements: changing knowledge,
creativity, subjectivity, socio-cultural factors, sensory experience,
and higher-order thinking strategies.
All of these are achievable through the inquiry methods of
fieldwork, case studies, investigations, individual group project,
and research work. (Small 2012)

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BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
In conclusion, you can say that Inquiry-based Learning
gives you the following advantages:
1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills
2. Improves student learning abilities
3. Widens learners’ vocabulary
4. Facilitates problem-solving acts
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BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-
BASED LEARNING
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
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Educators, businessmen, and other professionals consider all these
benefits of Inquiry-based Learning in various fields of knowledge to be
crucial to the success of anyone in the 21st Century.
Therefore, knowing the ins and outs of Inquiry-based Learning will greatly
guide you in deciding which learning method will guarantee successful
learning in the present world, which is tagged by many as the Era of
Globalization, Age of Knowledge Explosion, Age of Consumerism, Digital
Age, Age of Instant World, etc.

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