ORF SESSION

In Japan, high schools have introduced a dedicated period for cross-disciplinary inquiry, and there is now a move to further strengthen inquiry-based learning in elementary and junior high schools. Some universities are also involving students in research activities from the early stages of their undergraduate education. As we enter an era in which the presence of generative AI is taken for granted and the nature of human intelligence is being reexamined, why is inquiry so importantand even indispensable? The session brings together Masanori Kanda, who supervised the book Mastering Inquiry; Ryo Imamura, co-editor of Transforming Inquiry: Connecting High School and University; and Takashi Iba, who created the original story for the manga Inquiry in Another World: Learn How to Conduct Inqu