Learning at the Back Door
Reflections on Non-Traditional Learning in the Lifespan
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- Description
- Contents
Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, although-properly used-these resources enhance learning. There is a powerful subculture of independent learners who are responsible for much of the real progress that has been made in most areas on endeavor. This book attempts to explain this kind of learning and relate it to schooling, suggesting ways in which all learning-whether traditional or non-traditional-can be encouraged and improved through new kinds of educational institutions and processes.
Figures and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Personal Note
- Preface
- An Introductory Note About Terminology
- Part I. The Rise of Non-Traditional Learning
- Chapter 1. A New Urgency Regarding Learning
- Chapter 2. Learning at the Back Door
- Chapter 3. Teaching, Learning, Schooling, and Knowledge
- Part II. Non-Traditional Learning and Its Implications
- Chapter 4. Distance and Independent Learning
- Chapter 5. Open Learning
- Chapter 6. The Implications of Non-Traditional Learning
- Part III. Technology and Special Processes in Non-Traditional Learning Systems
- Chapter 7. Technology and Non-Traditional Learning
- Chapter 8. Instructional Design in Non-Traditional Teaching and Learning Systems
- Chapter 9. Building and Evaluating Non-Traditional Institutions or Programs
- Part IV. Learning from a Lifespan Perspective: Its Ends in a Learning Society
- Chapter 10. Lifespan Learning
- Chapter 11. Education for What?
- Chapter 12. Back Door Learning in the Learning Society
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index