The Base of the Iceberg: Informal Learning and Its Impact on Formal and Non-formal Learning

ISBN-13: 9783847406327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 97 str.

Prof. Alan Rogers

Opis

This book looks at informal learning in adult education, in the context of a global concept of learning (formal, non-formal, and informal), as lying on a continuum - this is, most learning situations are composed of both formal (planned) and informal (unplanned) elements. Informal learning, the larger but hidden part of learning, is universal (everyone learns informally during life's experience), ubiquitous, and continuous (not limited to specific locations and times). But, it is largely unconscious learning, resulting in tacit funds of knowledge and banks of skills that are used every day to negotiate our way through life. In particular, unconscious learning creates the basic assumptions which all student-learners bring to any new learning. (Series: Study Guides in Adult Education) Subject: Adult Education]

Alan Rogers looks at learning (formal, nonformal and informal) and examines the hidden world of informal (unconscious, unplanned) learning. He points out the importance of informal learning for creating tacit attitudes and values, knowledge and skills which influence (conscious, planned) learning formal and non-formal. Moreover, he explores the implications of informal learning for educational planners and teachers in the context of lifelong learning. While mainly aimed at adult educators, the book s arguments apply also to schooling and higher education, in both industrialised societies and developing countries where large numbers of children and adults are not and have not been in school and so rely on informal learning to manage change.

Recenzje

[...] I would strongly recommend this book to all adult educators in general because as Rogers concludes, "Without informal learning, none of us would grow; and without the products of informal learning, none of our planned learning programmes would be effective" (p. 79).
Adult Education Quarterly 66/2016
In conclusion, Rogers calls for a revision of the way we look at learning in order to cease interpreting it as what happens in agency-organised contexts and open its meaning to all learning, with special attention to what goes on outside plannedlearning experiences.
International Review of Education 61/2015
The base of the iceberg [...] is a thick and deep theoretical discussion on education by Alan Rogers, a well-known author in the field.
International Review of Education - Journal of Lifelong Learning 5/2015

O autorze

Professor Alan Rogers, has worked in adult education in Western and developing country contexts for over forty years;the is Visiting Professor, School of Education & Lifelong Learning, at the universities of East Anglia and Nottingham, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.