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Author Rogers, Alan, 1933- author.

Title The base of the iceberg : informal learning and its impact on formal and non-formal learning / Alan Rogers.

Publication Info. Leverkusen, Germany ; Berlin, Germany : Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Study Guides in Adult Education
Study guides in adult education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover ; The Base of the Iceberg. Informal Learning and Its Impact on Formal and Non-formal Learning; Contents ; Preface ; I. Introduction: "Unsettling tradition" ; 1.1 From 'education' to 'learning': a change of Discourse; 1.2 The dangers of confusion; II The Iceberg: Exploring the Relationship between Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Learning ; 2.1 Three kinds of learning; 2.1.1 Expanding the definitions ; 2.1.2 Intention and agency in learning ; 2.1.3 The learning continuum ; 2.1.4 Relationship of formal, non-formal and informal learning; 2.1.5 A tool of analysis.
2.2 What is learning?2.2.1 Learning as process ; 2.2.2 Learning what? ; 2.2.3 Learning as change -- domains of change ; 2.2.4 Learning in contexts ; 2.3 Summary; III The Base of the Iceberg: Informal Learning, its Nature and Processes ; 3.1 The nature of informal learning; 3.2 The processes of informal learning; 3.3 Summary; IV Informal (prior) Learning: What has been Learned; 4.1 Prior learning; 4.1.1 Pre-understanding; 4.1.2 Funds of knowledge ; 4.1.3 Frames of reference ; 4.1.4 Imaginaries and Discourses ; 4.2 All these attributes have been and are being learned; 4.3 Summary.
V Interactions between Informal Learning and Formal/Non-Formal Learning 5.1 Relations of formal and non-formal learning; 5.1.1 Teaching and learning ; 5.1.2 Similarities and differences ; 5.1.3 The changing balance between formal and non-formal learning ; 5.2 Relations between formal/non-formal learning andinformal learning; 5.2.1 Similarities and differences ; 5.2.2 The contemporary dominance of formal learning ; 5.3 Taking account of informal learning; 5.3.1 The demeaning of informal learning ; 5.3.2 What learners bring to new learning from informal learning.
5.4 The interaction of informal and formal learning: four approaches5.4.1 Using informal to assist formal and non-formal learning ; 5.4.2 Using formal and non-formal learning to redress informal learning; 5.4.3 Giving recognition and value to informal learning ; 5.4.4 Promoting continual dialogic learning ; 5.5 Some questions for teachers; 5.6 Summary; VI Conclusion: Does it matter? ; 6.1 Why is this discussion important?; Bibliography ; Index; About the Author.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Non-formal education.
Non-formal education.
Learning.
Learning.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rogers, Alan. Base of the iceberg : informal learning and its impact on formal and non-formal learning. Leverkusen, Germany ; Berlin, Germany : Barbara Budrich Publishers, ©2014 95 pages Study guides in adult education. 9783847406327
ISBN 9783847402589 (e-book)
3847402587 (e-book)
9783847406327
3847406329
9783847406327