Informal learning paper for QUT

informal learning

• valued for its intrinsic worth not because it is a precusor to something formal
• creates an ability and yearning to learn
• fundamental and necessary to life and growth

Definitions of informal learning

McGivney

outside formal learning context, non course based activity eg talks, planned and structured.

• this features are tied to CONTEXT

PEople saying that informal education is unsystematic, unorganised and unintentional

NEED TO LOOK BEYOND CONTEXT to PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES

ie what is happening in the learning

ERAUT continuum of non formal learning

• implicit - acquisition of knowledge independently of conscious attempts to learn
• reactive - explicit takes place spontaneously with no time set aside ???
• deliberative - time set aside for learning

TACIT KNOWLEDGE

making explicit knowledge tacit - when we learn and develop routines and habits

Is informal learning an expression of SITUATED LEARNING?