INQUIRY BASED LEARNING TO DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS: RESEARCH REVIEW

Abstract

The modern era demands that society members who have good social skills like communication skills, interpersonal skills, decision making skills and learnt verbal and nonverbal behavior. These necessary skills can be developed through the modification in the current instructional strategies. From the past times teachers are heavily rely only on chalk and talk method. Now there is a demand of society to shift the teaching learning process to learner centered and this can be possible through the adoption of constructivism based instructional methods like inquiry-based learning. It is that learning, in which learners construct their concepts with framing questions, constructing hypotheses, designing and conduction of experiments, generation of explanations. All the phases of inquiry driven instruction utilize the social skills for collective working.