Book on learning through practice
learning elearning,
Dec 01, 2011
At more that $100 a pop this book on learning through practice will be read only by people with expense accounts (and by students forced by their professors to buy a copy) but this survey article gives us a good sense of the contents. One chapter "discusses the large separation between what is taught and tested at school and the competencies learnt and practiced at work," which would be a useful reference in various contexts. Another discusses "learning trajectories." Another describes how "occupational learning has been largely based in workplace environments." The remainder look at systems like apprenticeships in more detail. Take the time to follow the links in this review - following Wolff-Michael Roth , for example, leads you to his paper Activism, A Category for Theorizing Learning, which describes the way "Consciousness develops out of and accompanies labour," where consciousness isn't just awareness of the set of facts, but an attitude or experience toward the domain in which those facts reside. "Thus," for example, "participating in treee planting shapes the personalities of the children."
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