Initiating Learning

• In current pedagogical theories and their diverse practical applications the explicit decisions on settings of teaching and learning processes rule the field, such as the subjects, schedules, tasks, social settings of learning. Governmental or cybernetic theory where the focus is on explicit issues, factors and didactic models has a great impact on European education, its theories, its practices and its systems.Seen from a phenomenological perspective, learning processes are never at hand or evident (Meyer-Drawe 2004). Even though the result of our learning might be obvious, we actually do not know how we learn something. The learning process as such is inevitably hidden. Furthermore, a learning process is not only governed by its tasks and conscious motives, but also by implicit and unspoken attitudes and mindsets. It is stimulated by implicit meanings of spoken and written statements, by tacit expressions of bodily communication and interaction, by aesthetical framings as e.g. iconic activities and objects and by the un-verbalized resources and limitations of commodities, tools and architectural environments etc.Following this argumentation, on the one hand concepts of learning, literacy, competence and attention are discussed. On the other hand, theories on teaching and on teacher education are developed.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Tacit Dimensions of Pedagogy

Learning Theories

Media

Phenomenology

Pedagogics and Educational Sciences

Pedagogik och Utbildningsvetenskap

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