The Base of the Iceberg : Informal Learning and Its Impact on Formal and Non-formal Learning / Alan Rogers

• VerfasserIn: Rogers, Alan Prof.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Study guides in adult education.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Alan Rogers looks at learning (formal, nonformal and informal) and examines the hidden world of informal (unconscious, unplanned) learning. He points out the importance of informal learning for creating tacit attitudes and values, knowledge and skills which influence (conscious, planned) learning - formal and non-formal. Moreover, he explores the implications of informal learning for educational planners and teachers in the context of lifelong learning. While mainly aimed at adult educators, the book's arguments apply also to schooling and higher education, in both industrialised societies and developing countries where large numbers of children and adults are not and have not been in school and so rely on informal learning to manage change.

[...] I would strongly recommend this book to all adult educators in general because as Rogers concludes, "Without informal learning, none of us would grow; and without the products of informal learning, none of our planned learning programmes would be effective" (p. 79). Adult Education Quarterly 66/2016 In conclusion, Rogers calls for a revision of the way we look at learning in order to cease interpreting it as what happens in agency-organised contexts and open its meaning to all learning, with special attention to what goes on outside plannedlearning experiences. International Review of Education 61/2015 The base of the iceberg [...] is a thick and deep theoretical discussion on education by Alan Rogers, a well-known author in the field. International Review of Education - Journal of Lifelong Learning 5/2015

Table of Contents

Cover ; The Base of the Iceberg. Informal Learning and Its Impact on Formal and Non-formal Learning; Contents ; Preface ; I. Introduction: "Unsettling tradition" ; 1.1 From 'education' to 'learning': a change of Discourse; 1.2 The dangers of confusion; II The Iceberg: Exploring the Relationship between Formal, Non-Formal and Informal Learning ; 2.1 Three kinds of learning; 2.1.1 Expanding the definitions ; 2.1.2 Intention and agency in learning ; 2.1.3 The learning continuum ; 2.1.4 Relationship of formal, non-formal and informal learning; 2.1.5 A tool of analysis

2.2 What is learning?2.2.1 Learning as process ; 2.2.2 Learning what? ; 2.2.3 Learning as change - domains of change ; 2.2.4 Learning in contexts ; 2.3 Summary; III The Base of the Iceberg: Informal Learning, its Nature and Processes ; 3.1 The nature of informal learning; 3.2 The processes of informal learning; 3.3 Summary; IV Informal (prior) Learning: What has been Learned; 4.1 Prior learning; 4.1.1 Pre-understanding; 4.1.2 Funds of knowledge ; 4.1.3 Frames of reference ; 4.1.4 Imaginaries and Discourses ; 4.2 All these attributes have been and are being learned; 4.3 Summary

V Interactions between Informal Learning and Formal/Non-Formal Learning 5.1 Relations of formal and non-formal learning; 5.1.1 Teaching and learning ; 5.1.2 Similarities and differences ; 5.1.3 The changing balance between formal and non-formal learning ; 5.2 Relations between formal/non-formal learning andinformal learning; 5.2.1 Similarities and differences ; 5.2.2 The contemporary dominance of formal learning ; 5.3 Taking account of informal learning; 5.3.1 The demeaning of informal learning ; 5.3.2 What learners bring to new learning from informal learning

5.4 The interaction of informal and formal learning: four approaches5.4.1 Using informal to assist formal and non-formal learning ; 5.4.2 Using formal and non-formal learning to redress informal learning; 5.4.3 Giving recognition and value to informal learning ; 5.4.4 Promoting continual dialogic learning ; 5.5 Some questions for teachers; 5.6 Summary; VI Conclusion: Does it matter? ; 6.1 Why is this discussion important?; Bibliography ; Index; About the Author