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Inquiry Training Model

The document discusses the inquiry training model proposed by J. Richard Suchman. It describes inquiry training as involving inductive inquiry, discovery learning, and problem solving. The key aspects of the model are that knowledge is tentative and open to revision, inquiry is triggered by problems or puzzles, and children are naturally curious. The model focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process and exploring/analyzing themselves. It involves encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing the inquiry process. Principles of the model include asking questions to clarify invalid questions or statements, neither approving nor rejecting student theories, and encouraging interaction. The social system emphasizes equal participation and learning inquiry principles, while the support system provides confronting materials and

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Inquiry Training Model

The document discusses the inquiry training model proposed by J. Richard Suchman. It describes inquiry training as involving inductive inquiry, discovery learning, and problem solving. The key aspects of the model are that knowledge is tentative and open to revision, inquiry is triggered by problems or puzzles, and children are naturally curious. The model focuses on engaging children in the inquiry process and exploring/analyzing themselves. It involves encountering problems, gathering data, experimenting, formulating explanations, and analyzing the inquiry process. Principles of the model include asking questions to clarify invalid questions or statements, neither approving nor rejecting student theories, and encouraging interaction. The social system emphasizes equal participation and learning inquiry principles, while the support system provides confronting materials and

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Inquiry Training Model

Unit II

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU


Inquiry Training Model

J. Richard Suchman
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Inductive inquiry

Discovery learning

Problem solving

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU


Inquiry Training Model

• All knowledge is tentative


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

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU


Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Inquiry Training Model
Focus

✤Children are very curious in nature


✤Engage in inquiry process
✤Explore and analyse themselves

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU


Inquiry Training Model
Syntax
✤Encounter with the problem
✤Data gathering process
✤Experimentation
✤Formulating explanation
✤Analysis of the inquiry process
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
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
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
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
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
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
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

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