The Process of Education

Geoffrey Vickers advocated and illustrated the efficacy of informal education. Children and older students can and do learn within the contexts of tasks and questions that are meaningful to them. This article is about surprisingly successful learning in informal settings. Informal learning has often...

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Published in:The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 1994-09, Vol.38 (1), p.122-132
Main Author: WHITE, ALVIN M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Education
Educational innovations
Geoffrey Vickers
Humanities
Informal
Information
Knowledge
Learning
Mathematics
Sociological theory
Study and teaching
Vickers, Geoffrey
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Summary:Geoffrey Vickers advocated and illustrated the efficacy of informal education. Children and older students can and do learn within the contexts of tasks and questions that are meaningful to them. This article is about surprisingly successful learning in informal settings. Informal learning has often been encouraged because of the failure of more traditional approaches. Mathematics has been assumed to be certain and the model of describing truth. The certainty of mathematics and the formal mode of discussing mathematics are being reconsidered. Connections between mathematics and humanistic disciplines are the bases of a worldwide movement of mathematically minded scholars.
ISSN:0002-7642
1552-3381
DOI:10.1177/0002764294038001010