Inquiry-based learning, its a method capable of reaching into the depths of the mind. It questions what is it that "I" know and how do "I" know what "I" know. Inquiry-based learning is a form of teaching knowledge. It is a free format used by teachers and students to form their own views using the questioning technique to be applied to everything that it is being taught. The technique of inquiring what we know and the technique to think further to what we want to find out. This type of thinking can lead us into unlocking hidden treasures of our universe. Several fundamentals should be applied, they are known as the "ten rational powers": recalling and imagining; classifying and generalizing; comparing and evaluating; analyzing and synthesizing; and deducing and inferring when studying the path of self-questioning.
Students are encourage to apply their critical thinking skills to question what is the meaning of what it is being learned. It is known that self-initiated questioning, should begin to be taught in schools from the lower grades. In 1961 inquiry-based learning was implemented to all grades after the Educational Policies Commission suggested the need for it. They stated that American Education must develop its education by applying the fundamentals called the"ten rational powers". These "ten rational powers" were implemented in the fifties, when the United States government was in a race with Russia's technological and military advancements. The educational board promoted students to think creatively in the search of how to solve problems. Later, in the sixties, the so-called alphabet soup curricula were pushed in the schools (BSCS, CHEM, SCIS, ESS, PSSC). This was an interesting period to use inquiry-based learning, nevertheless it was a very good time for inquiry-based learning to be introduced in the schools for the availability to be used by the masses that were exposed to other way of thinking and it brought the experience for the students to explore their consciousness. Today's education system, is based on a report that was made by President Ronald Reagan called "A Nation At Risk" in 1983 after the American education was viewed to rank below the rest of the world. Currently, our schools priority is to apply reasoning instead of promoting critical thinking and creative process. We can only hope to brake these walls of reasoning and allow our mind to explore into the abyss of discovery.
Students are encourage to apply their critical thinking skills to question what is the meaning of what it is being learned. It is known that self-initiated questioning, should begin to be taught in schools from the lower grades. In 1961 inquiry-based learning was implemented to all grades after the Educational Policies Commission suggested the need for it. They stated that American Education must develop its education by applying the fundamentals called the"ten rational powers". These "ten rational powers" were implemented in the fifties, when the United States government was in a race with Russia's technological and military advancements. The educational board promoted students to think creatively in the search of how to solve problems. Later, in the sixties, the so-called alphabet soup curricula were pushed in the schools (BSCS, CHEM, SCIS, ESS, PSSC). This was an interesting period to use inquiry-based learning, nevertheless it was a very good time for inquiry-based learning to be introduced in the schools for the availability to be used by the masses that were exposed to other way of thinking and it brought the experience for the students to explore their consciousness. Today's education system, is based on a report that was made by President Ronald Reagan called "A Nation At Risk" in 1983 after the American education was viewed to rank below the rest of the world. Currently, our schools priority is to apply reasoning instead of promoting critical thinking and creative process. We can only hope to brake these walls of reasoning and allow our mind to explore into the abyss of discovery.
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