ABSTRACT
Pattern: seven ages of learning.
Context: there is a growing appreciation of learning patterns that reflect the life-stage of the learner and include the conscious and the more-than-conscious mind, individuals and groups.
Issue: confining learning to different compartments, such as separating thinking from doing, subjective from objective and inner-directed from other-directed minds, blocks the way to collective learning.
Resolution: expanding the reach of open-ended collective learning in each of Shakespeare’s seven ages of man.
Examples: collective learning that brings inner-directed questions into the context of field studies and social learning.
