Your description about inquiry learning is quite insightful for me. It is important that teachers inspire students to come up with questions towards the topic they are learning. Considering the possible problems, they can further interpret evidence and design solutions. As we have discussed in the subtitle about AI in labor demand and supply, when teachers prepare some questions for students to brainstorm and discuss, they are actually learning through inquiry in different scenarios. Then they can compare the data by the existed demand-supply chart or construct other possible relations based on the related data. What’s more, you’re right that inquiry learning is in accordance with cognitivism theory. Since this learning approach create connections to students’ prior understandings and use appropriate learning strategies to guide and support accurate mental connections. Besides, I think it is more or less mixed with the constructivism since it also requires students to think and connect the actual situations in our society.
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