How I see inquiry, to me inquiry in early childhood is truly based on natural curiosity. It\u2019s systematic in some ways because educators learn or know implicitly how to have children ask questions and reflect on those questions. So it\u2019s not simply asking questions and going with children\u2019s ideas, it\u2019s also having children come back to that and taking their questions and their explorations as the object of learning, and so that reflection is very important. Another piece that I think is important in the inquiry program is language. So, there\u2019s a kind of language that speaks about thinking and knowing and guessing, and it\u2019s okay to not know something, but that as you continue to ask questions and you work together with your colleagues and your educators, that evidence begins to inform whether you know something. So I think inquiry is part of play. It certainly happens in a play based program, but at the same time I think it\u2019s more explicit and it\u2019s controlled a little bit more by the educators in terms of helping children to learn to build on their questions, keep asking questions, reflect on what they\u2019re doing, and then document their learning as they go along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think documentation provides the physical evidence of what the questions and what the explorations have been. So it gives children something concrete to examine and to think about. And of course that can change over time so children actually have a concrete maybe series, a panel of photographs for instance that help them to see how their questions and how their exploration has developed, and it gives them something really observable to think about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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