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All rights reserved. To prepare for the use of a new pedagogical approach, inquiry based on student questions, I needed to review the literature on how students acquire knowledge. Inquiry is a tool scientists and others use to ask and answer questions of the world. Underlying the use of an inquiry approach in science instruction is a broader learning theory, known as constructivism. In definitions of inquiry, there exists a tension between the need to guide the learner and the role of a learner's agency in the learning process.