ABSTRACT
As earlier chapters have shown, what we know about learning has changed a good deal in recent years. We no longer think of learning simply in terms of what behavioural changes take place. Neither do we see it just as a matter of the processing of information in people’s brains. Rather, we now think of learning as a social activity. Learners learn when they engage with knowledge in social contexts. But learners also learn when they engage with things which we might not usually think of as ‘knowledge’. For example, we learn when we engage with other people’s beliefs (or, as we may think, their prejudices).
