From an NALL (New Approaches to Lifelong Learning)\u00a0 Working Paper entitled The Iceberg of Informal Adult Learning by Allen Tough, guru of self-directed learning:<\/p>\n
I found his comment about people who are “content” and “don’t see any need to learn” very intriguing.\u00a0 My husband and I took a different route home from the vet and “learned” all kinds of things about our growing community.\u00a0 There were new homes, new hotels, new dormitories.\u00a0 It’s pretty superficial learning really yet there’s an underlying theme that we are coming to understand, that of growth.\u00a0 So, without trying very hard, we learned something.<\/p>\n
I agreed with his idea that learning was often invisible because it was shown as something else: writing a report or wiring the car.\u00a0 Tough writes, “They don’t think: ‘I did some learning in order to do that task,’ they just think of the task.”\u00a0 There are really two questions here: What did I learn to do that task? What did I learn from doing that task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From an NALL (New Approaches to Lifelong Learning)\u00a0 Working Paper entitled The Iceberg of Informal Adult Learning by Allen Tough, guru of self-directed learning: I found his comment about people who are “content” and “don’t see any need to learn” very intriguing.\u00a0 My husband and I took a different route home from the vet and … Continue reading Tough’s Iceberg<\/span>