The essence of personage is to play, and equity infusing in Inquiry is effectual.
- Beaulah Paul
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min read

Inquiry is an approach to being a learner in investigating, figuring it out, and testing things out. Engaging in its definition of play is the centric form of that approach. On this dimension, offering opportunities for children to engage in play, we are using an inquiry-based approach
undoubtedly. If then looking at it as separate identities, then it is a misconception. Inquiry as a process happens in many different contexts, so play is one of the most influential contexts. It is an essential context for the young child. Without it, all learning would be adversity.
A problem may drive the context for Inquiry. A big shared question may cause it or maybe go by a project. Experimentation, the remote learning time would be playing with possibilities. What if I did this? How would this work? But the engagement, particularly with materials and each other in the early learning space that is Inquiry.
Active stance is not that we bring to life, but it's a part of our humanity.
Intense, difficult inquiring that hasn't got the same playfulness may be playing with an idea,
or maybe playing with a relationship and a collaboration or a lack of cooperation infused in a different flavor. Nothing can be kept from the children involved and engaged in the decisions made about their learning for their learning and time of exploration first. The part of the decisions that you have made which has been explicit is about revealing your purposes.
The notion of precise has been something other than didactic pedagogy. We are seeing clear as being intentionally democratic and modelling our democracy as much as we live our democracy with our children. We are being invested in the listening process so profoundly that we listen to the moment. The clarity of intention and an inquiry stance with the possibilities this might go in a
different direction. Just as thinkers, the critical analysis of their friend's attempts, collaboration and
communication are called assets that one need for any learning will have the potential to be built and strengthen much more. When we give kids an opportunity to figure more out for themselves, as soon as we take that away, not only are we masking the possibility that they haven't learnt it.
Perhaps look like children performed it that those in the curriculum we call them the general capabilities or behaviors that learners need we're less likely to develop those at the same time.
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