ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with how the character of human learning is changed over a lifetime from uncensored and confident learning in childhood to fundamentally directed by the process of identity building in youth and later, in adulthood becoming increasingly selective and goal oriented, and in mature adulthood even exclusive and conclusive. It provides the framework for an understanding of human learning. In connection with the concept of ‘transfer of learning’ is a classic issue of learning psychology, dealing with the fact that sometimes, actually quite often, learning which has taken place in a specific context, cannot be recalled or practiced in a different context. The book argues that learning transferability is connected to and different in relation to the four different types of learning: cumulation, assimilation, accommodation and transformation.
