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The document outlines the Inquiry Training Model, which focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process of encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing results. It emphasizes that knowledge is tentative, there are no definite answers, and that inquiry occurs when confronted with problems or puzzles. The model also describes the social system of equal participation between teachers and students and encouragement of student inquiry and interaction.

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Inquiry Training Model

The document outlines the Inquiry Training Model, which focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process of encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing results. It emphasizes that knowledge is tentative, there are no definite answers, and that inquiry occurs when confronted with problems or puzzles. The model also describes the social system of equal participation between teachers and students and encouragement of student inquiry and interaction.

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Inquiry Training Model

Unit II
Inquiry Training Model

J. Richard Suchman
Inquiry Training Model

• All knowledge is tentative


• There is no one answer
• All of us inquire when confronted with a
problem or puzzles
Inductive inquiry

Discovery learning

Problem solving
Inquiry Training Model
Focus

✤Children are very curious in nature


✤Engage in inquiry process
✤Explore and analyse themselves
Inquiry Training Model
Syntax
✤Encounter with the problem
✤Data gathering process
✤Experimentation
✤Formulating explanation
✤Analysis of the inquiry process
Inquiry Training Model
principle of reaction
✤Asking questions to rephrase invalid
questions
✤Pointing out invalid statement
✤Neither approving nor rejecting student
theories
✤Encourage interaction among students
Inquiry Training Model
Social system

✤Equal participation of teacher and


student
✤Encourage student for the inquiry
✤Learn the principle of inquiry
✤Teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil interaction
Inquiry Training Model
Support system
✤A set of confronting materials
✤Te c h n i c a l u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e
intellectual processes and strategies of
inquiry
✤The resource materials bearing on the
problem

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