International Handbook of Inquiry and Learning is an overview of scholarship related to learning through and engagement in inquiry. Education takes on complex dimensions when learners solve problems, draw conclusions, and create meaning not through memorization or recall but instead through active cognitive, affective, and experiential processes. Drawing from educational psychology and the learning sciences while encompassing key subdisciplines, this rigorous, globally attentive collection offers new insights into what makes learning through inquiry both possible in context and beneficial to outcomes. Supported by foundational theories, key definitions, and empirical evidence, the book’s special focus on effective environments and motivational goals, equity and epistemic agency among learners, and support of teachers sets powerful, multifaceted new research directions in this rich area of study.

1. Inquiry and Learning Section 1: The Design of Inquiry Learning Environments 2. Evolving Conceptions of Educational Research and Inquiry 3. Guiding Frameworks for the Design of Inquiry Learning Environments 4. Establishing and Running Design Teams 5. Design-Based Implementation Research to Support Inquiry Learning 6. Scaling Up Design of Inquiry Environments 7. Professional Development for the Support of Teaching through Inquiry 8. Assessing Inquiry Section 2: Components of Inquiry Environments 9. Motivation in Collaborative Inquiry Environments 10. Scaffolding Inquiry: Reviewing and Expanding on the Function and Form of Scaffolding in Inquiry Learning 11. Inquiry-based Practices: Opening Possibilities for (In)Equitable Interactions in Classrooms 12. How Best to Argue? Examining the Role of Talk in Learning from a Sociocultural Perspective 13. Argumentation and Inquiry Learning 14. Collaborative Interactions in Inquiry Learning 15. Community-Level Design Considerations in Creating Communities of Inquiry Section 3: Inquiry and Learning Across Disciplines and Contexts 16. Inquiry and Learning in Literature 17. Inquiry Learning in History 18. Broadening Participation in Mathematical Inquiry: A Problem of Instructional Design 19. Inquiry and Learning in Science 20. Inquiry and Learning in Engineering 21. Inquiry and Learning in Informal Settings