Definition
of Inquiry Based
Learning Strategy
Alberta (2004: 1) defines inquiry is the dynamic process
of being open to wonder and puzzlements and coming to know and understand the
world. Alberta also defines inquiry-based learning is a process where students
are involved in their learning, formulate questions, investigate widely and
then build new understandings, meanings and knowledge. That knowledge is new to the students and may
be used to answer a question, to develop a solution or to support a position or
point of view. The knowledge is usually
presented to others and may result in some sort of action
Klein (2009: 21) Inquiry is a process of teaching and
learning that empowers students to follow their sense of wonder and curiosity
into new discoveries and insights about the way the world works. The empowered learner calls upon information/inquiry
skills to connect with what he or she knows, asks intriguing questions about
what is not known, investigates the answers, constructs new understandings, and
communicates to share those understandings with others. These skills prepare students for lifelong
learning and real-life success. Inquiry
skills help students navigate the world.
Hutchings (2007: 9) defines Inquiry is the action of
seeking, esp. (now always) for truth, knowledge, or information concerning
something; search, research, investigation, examination. Enquiry-Based Learning
is a term that describes any process of learning through enquiry. This is not
simply one tautology, but, many people would contend, one tautology that
contains another. For all learning is at root enquiring: the identification of
an area of ignorance and the search for the missing knowledge, ideas or
hypotheses.
Kellow (2006: 5) Inquiry
learning is a student-centred approach to learning where the teacher acts as a
guide or facilitator of learning. Inquiry takes students out of the pre
digested format of the textbook and into the process of learning from a variety
of sources to construct their own understandings. They learn to think through
subject content apart from prescribed responses or preset solutions. They are
guided through a process of intellectual construction that enables them to
build on what they already know and come to a deeper understanding of the
concepts and problems underlying the subject.......(Baca Selengkapnya)
