ABSTRACT
Learning, structuring, and individualization go together. Learning aims at mastering the structures that surround us and denotes the creation of corresponding internal structures: John D. Nolan points at the necessity to chunk and categorize in order to master new information (Nolan, 1973), while Jerome Bruner states that “unless detail is placed into a structured pattern, it is rapidly forgotten” (Bruner, 2003, p. 24). These findings of pedagogy are supported by neurobiological research. External structures we recognize and remember are represented in our brains by neuronal patterns that are generated by the brain itself due to repetitive stimuli. (Spitzer, 2003, pp. 79). Consequently, creating internal structures (or: learning) depends on the learning individual.
