ABSTRACT
Most learning is more than just remembering. Words that describe deeper learning include personal development, personal growth, internalization and self-realization.
Learning occurs in many ways and combinations of ways. 21 propositions or principles underpin, and can be inferred from, the 21 learning activities that follow. The propositions or principles are:
• People know more than they realize they know. • People can do more than they think they can do. • Groups know more than individuals. • Groups can find out more than individuals. • We learn by thinking things out for ourselves. • We learn through thinking things out with others. • We learn through debate and discussion. • We learn through experiment. • We learn through play and fun. • We learn through mixes of activity, topic and movement. • We learn by doing and through experience. • We learn through embracing error. • We learn through recollection. • We learn through reflection. • We learn by talking. • We learn by helping others learn (‘learning by teaching and training’). • We learn better from peers than from teachers. • We learn by doubting. • We learn by breaking rules. • We learn by working out our own ways of doing things, with our own
pragmatic principles. • We learn from lists shorter than 21.
