ABSTRACT
People have four interrelated sets of cognitive needs: those necessary for acquiring knowledge about the functioning of the world around them, those necessary for achieving instrumental ends (for example, doing a job), those concerned with learning for its own sake, and those involving expressive actions. This chapter focuses on how the everyday environment rather than the formal environment of schools and other institutional settings provides opportunities for continual learning. The concern is with learning for the pleasure of learning and for opportunities to express what is learnt.
