ABSTRACT
The formal learning is traditionally classroom learning, a behaviourist process where the learner is inactive, receiving volumes of historically defined data deposited by the teacher through a product curriculum driven by rote learning. Informal learning is more conversationally based than delivered, using conversation to engage and support people in processing their experiences, encouraging their consideration of options, responses and consequences. Adventure learning is experiential but combines both formal and informal learning. Passive learning tends towards the former, striving to a defined measurable output; active learning on the other hand tends towards the latter as learners embrace knowledge more readily and feel rewarded when they can reuse it successfully. Personal ability combines with understanding of the self and social reflected understanding to determine the way in which the individual views the experience and derives learning from it, as they respond to the situation and the environment.
