How can I use inquiry-based learning in conjunction with other educational techniques? What does it have to do with my classroom? Most of our schools focus on teaching a set of basic skills that do not serve the needs of modern society. Traditionally, schools stressed the accumulation of information, and did not emphasize skill development or nurturing inquiry-based habits of mind.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English Â© 2016. inâ¢struâ¢menâ¢tal (inâ²strÉ menâ²tl), adj. 1  serving or acting as an instrument or means; useful; helpful. 2  Music and Danceperformed on or written for a musical instrument or instruments:instrumental music.  of or pertaining to an instrument or tool.
Instrumental virtue consists not in movement as such, but in 'the seriation, the arrangement, the pattern of the instruments in their movements' (GO: 150) through which the disproportionate effect is produced (Stebbins, Divine Initiative 242-44).