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The community of inquiry (CoI) [1] is a concept first introduced by early pragmatist philosophers C.S.Peirce [2] and John Dewey, concerning the nature of knowledge formation and the process of scientific inquiry. The community of inquiry is broadly defined as any group of individuals involved in a process of empirical or conceptual inquiry into
Inquiry education supports these skills, especially when students take part in a community of inquiry. [44] [48] Students who are actively collaborating and communicating in an inquiry based science class exhibit and develop many of these skills. [47] [48] [44] [42] Specifically, these students: make observations and ask questions with their peers
Community: The notion of a community creates the social fabric for learning. A strong community fosters interactions and encourages people to collaborate and share ideas. Practice: While the domain provides a shared community interest or goal, the practice is the specific focus around which the community develops, shares and maintains its core ...
Peirce's pragmatism, as method and theory of definitions and conceptual clearness, is part of his theory of inquiry, [113] which he variously called speculative, general, formal or universal rhetoric or simply methodeutic. [114] He applied his pragmatism as a method throughout his work.
Models of scientific inquiry have two functions: first, to provide a descriptive account of how scientific inquiry is carried out in practice, and second, to provide an explanatory account of why scientific inquiry succeeds as well as it appears to do in arriving at genuine knowledge. The philosopher Wesley C. Salmon described scientific inquiry:
Here knowledge and action are portrayed as two separate spheres with an absolute or transcendental truth above and beyond any sort of inquiry organisms used to cope with life. Pragmatism challenges this idealism by providing an "ecological" account of knowledge: inquiry is how organisms can get a grip on their environment.
Situated learning is a theory that explains an individual's acquisition of professional skills and includes research on apprenticeship into how legitimate peripheral participation leads to membership in a community of practice. [1] Situated learning "takes as its focus the relationship between learning and the social situation in which it ...
An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English) [a] [b] is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem.A theory of inquiry is an account of the various types of inquiry and a treatment of the ways that each type of inquiry achieves its aim.