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Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World

Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World

Calvo de Mora, Javier
Kennedy, Kerry J.

Hardcover

Series: Asia-Europe Education Dialogue

General Education

ISBN10: 0367077566
ISBN13: 9780367077563
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 26 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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