ABSTRACT
Learning within a school environment is typically goal directed. Students are at school because they want to learn certain things, attain specific standards, and perhaps satisfy the requirements for a particular diploma or award. The majority of students are not there, as described mischievously by Postman and Weingartner (1987), to serve out a sentence! Teachers, too, are not serving ‘time’ in schools but are wanting their students to achieve particular goals or ends.
