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Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World (Hardcover)
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Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World (Hardcover)
Series: Asia-Europe Education Dialogue
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This book has two purposes: To open up the debate on the role of
informal education in schooling systems and to suggest the kind of
school organizational environment that can best facilitate the
recognition of informal learning. Successive chapters explore what
is often seen as a duality between informal and formal learning.
This duality is particularly so because education systems expend so
much time and effort in certifying formal knowledge often expressed
in school subjects reflecting academic disciplines.Recognizing the
contribution informal learning can make to young people's
understanding and development does not negate the importance of
valued social knowledge: That complements it. Students come to
school with knowledge learnt from their families, peers, the
community and both traditional and social media. They should not
have to "unlearn" this in order to enter the world of formal
learning. Rather, students' different learning "worlds" should be
integrated so that each informs the other. In a knowledge-based
society, all learning needs to be valued. Some contributors to this
book reflect on how new educational systems could be created in a
move away from top-down authoritarian and bureaucratic management.
Such open systems are seen to be more welcoming in acknowledging
the importance of informal learning. Others provide practical
examples of how informal learning is currently recognized. Some
attention is also paid to the evaluation of informal learning. A
key objective of the work presented here is to stimulate debate
about the role of informal learning in knowledge-based societies
and to stimulate thinking about the kind of reforms needed to
create more open and more democratic school learning environments.
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