A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

Last Edited: September 13, 2018

Main Article: Front Matter

“I’M NOT A SALAMANDER!” a former educator quipped after hearing a brief description of results obtained from applying a learners’ view (ALV) in lessons. “People are so full of themselves,” commented a former teacher after hearing the same description. She continued, “Maybe that’s why some teachers don’t pay attention to ALV.”

General Articles identifies categories of comments about a learners’ view (ALV) heard from general readers, scholars, electronic technology developers, and educators, mostly teachers.

No comments are as poetic as the salamander quip. Some comments were made during free ranging casual conversations, others were passing comments, sometimes made by people unfamiliar with the professional side of teaching and learning.

More comments were made by active educators than by people outside of education.

All indicated that they were unfamiliar with the place of experimental behavioral and social science research descriptions of learning, especially of learning as a social process.

Most commenters acknowledged the novelty to them of a formalized description of a learners’ view of learning.

These discussions may be characterized as questioning the authority of or for ALV, the relevance of experimental scientific research to public school activities, and the image, politics, and audacity (i.e., irreverence) of human learning described as if it is non-human and a machine.

Consider them as you do a notebook with changing entries from time to time, always as an incomplete statement. At the same time, consider each entry as a pattern that has been useful to people trying to clarify the place of ALV in teaching and learning as well as in the social institution of education.

Topics

Topics are listed in order of frequency of occurrence.

• Authority of a Learners’ View of Learning
• Generalizability of a Learners’ View of Learning
• Images of Human Learning
• Irreverence and Doctrinal Competition and Shift
• Relevance of a Learners’ View of Learning
• It’s Story Time

These articles in alphabetical order address issues implicit in the comments encountered.

• Code for Learning
• Limits of Language
• Scalability of a Learners’ View of Learning
• Scaling ALV Beyond Individuals
• State of the Art

Related references and readings are included with each article.

Related Reading

1. Behind Classic Education: A Learners’ View (AL V) of Teaching and Learning
2. Technical-Scientific Literacy of Educators (TSLE)