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differentiate research & inquiry learning ? what makes the two different from each other

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Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Hello, I saw your comment in the CHAT column and will give your question a try...but please realize I am no expert here.

First of all, to differentiate inquiry learning from conventional teaching - which was just giving students facts to memorize. With inquiry learning, people are given a question along with the tools to explore, and discover the information for themselves.

The goal is to develop one's own ability for critical thinking.

My understanding of research would be where you apply your inquiry to seek a scientific answer. In other words, I would see research as one specialized type of inquiry learning.

Maurice Korvo Profile
Maurice Korvo answered

I think inquiry learning is a very basic cause and effect type learning. For example: Why does the light come on? Answer The switch was turned on.

Research goes deeper in that for every answer there is another question.. For above the learner would then ask, Why did the switch make the light go on? Answer It let the electric current get to it,  which brings up the question ..what does the current do to make the light come on.. Etc

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Tom Jackson answered

I'm not immediately familiar with this particular juxtaposition, so I did a little research.

Both of the following paragraphs are from two Wikipedia articles.

(Happy thinking !)

Inquiry-based learning (also enquiry-based learning in British English)[1] starts by posing questions, problems or scenarios—rather than simply presenting established facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge. The process is often assisted by a facilitator. Inquirers will identify and research issues and questions to develop their knowledge or solutions. Inquiry-based learning includes problem-based learning, and is generally used in small scale investigations and projects, as well as research.[2] The inquiry-based instruction is principally very closely related to the development and practice of thinking skills.[3]

Research comprises "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications."[1] It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field. To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects, or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Approaches to research depend on epistemologies, which vary considerably both within and between humanities and sciences. There are several forms of research: Scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, life, technological,etc

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