"What Children Gain by Learning Through Inquiry" by Hubert Dyasi

I read this article out of order in regards to the other two articles I reflected on from NSF. If I were to have read it in order, I may have felt that the importance of inquiry was purposefully nuanced in this article. Unfortunately, because I read it third- though the subject matter is definitely important- it seems relatively redundant. Regardless, I believe it does convey the fundamental importance of inquiry. What do children gain? They gain the capacity to enrich their own lives, and to exercise their mental ability to speculate, investigate, and constantly acquire new information about the world around them. Inquiry expands student's capabilities to articulate their questions, reason with their findings, and grapple with the meaning derived from their investigations- all of which are important to an individual's intellectual growth and ability to interpret the world around them.

"Through the processes of asking questions, obtaining answers, attaching meaning to the results of their investigations,
and relating the meanings they make to established scientific knowledge, children build a repertoire of knowledge, skills, and habits of mind that affirm their human capacity to productively use inquiry for their development."