To talk about emergency situations, Priya asked children's experiences when they faced any emergencies. Children narrated their experiences with fire, electric shock and road accidents. She asked questions, assessed their existing understandings and discussed safety aspects using resources such as road safety advertisements from newspapers and also used LPG and electric bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and electric shock respectively. Which is the most appropriate approach that Priya employed?

To talk about emergency situations, Priya asked children's experiences when they faced any emergencies. Children narrated their experiences with fire, electric shock and road accidents. She asked questions, assessed their existing understandings and discussed safety aspects using resources such as road safety advertisements from newspapers and also used LPG and electric bill to discuss safety guidelines on fire and electric shock respectively. Which is the most appropriate approach that Priya employed? Correct Answer Enquiry approach

Enquiry approach is a child-centered approach that emphasizes active involvement in the construction of knowledge. It is a primary tool to connect the child with their own experiences by posing questions and making decisions in the search of new understanding.

Key Points

Enquiry approach includes high order thinking skills, problem-solving, creative activities and sharing ideas.

• In Inquiry Approach, the students are given a problem or a discrepant event. The students will ask the teacher questions to collect the data and they through interaction find out a satisfactory solution to a given problem or explanation to the given discrepant event. In this approach, the teaching-learning process is totally controlled by the students. 
• The Inquiry Approach is the extension of the discovery approach. In any inquiry discovery is always there but vice versa is not true. In this method cause and effect relationship is established and the teacher provides no cues to the students.

Hence, we can conclude that in the above situation most appropriate approach that Priya employed is the Enquiry approach.

Additional Information

• Cognitive approach: It refers to the way a human thinks and makes decisions by his/her own experiences and senses.
• Experiential learning approach: It refers to learning by gaining experience through active involvement. Hands-on learning, field trips, internships could be the forms of it.
• Humanistic approach: It focuses on the ways to help improve an individual's self-image to make him/her feel worthwhile.