Bronwyn Stuckey
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I have just started reading Learning in Places - The Informal Education Reader edited by Zvi Bekerman. Has anyone read this? What were your thoughts?
It struck me that literarature on informal learning is found in and across many domains - ones that I might not encounter or even recognise. Given the illustrious group assembled here in this disucssion, I thought it might a be a great place to find and discuss interesting or even better - provocative literature.
So what is on your bookshelf?
A QUESTION:
If we harness informal learning, intentionally bring strategies into our set of learning tools - then is it still informal learning or is it an informal practice pressed into a formal mould? Would it still look or be informal?
Perhaps we could honor informal learning better if we acknowledged individual informal learning the way vocational programs and workplaces acknowledge people's knowledge from having acted successfully in a certain capacity - recognition of prior learning it is called in Australia but could easily be recognition of informal learning.
How could I resist the topic and even more so when it is facilitated by two of my favourite people! Add Jay Cross and some of the other names I see gathering here and it looks like we are in for some very provocative discussions.