The Role of the Community of Inquiry in the Process of Knowing

Abstract

Introduction:  The notion of Community is a fashionable one. It has been studied (and it is still being studied) from many different areas of thinking: philosophers, sociologists, lawyers, psychologists, pedagogues, and scientists, among others, have offered different points of view from which new terms have been proposed, to shape and limit the more general concept of Community: concepts like «Linguistic Community», «Community of Speech», «Community of Inquiry», «Educational Community», «Scientific Community», and so on.