Comparing Formal and Informal Learning
Comparing Formal and Informal Learning
Much of what a person knows was never delivered in a planned lesson. This chapter looks at informal learning through Beckett and Hager (2002), sets it against formal learning using the feature comparison from Colley, Hodkinson and Malcolm, and then asks whether the two are really separate at all or attributes that mix in almost every situation.
Beckett and Hager on whole-person learning, its six marks, and why it tends to stay with us.
Control, setting, knowledge, interests, and reach, feature by feature.
The argument that formality and informality are attributes present in all learning.
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