Classic Education: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Choices … introduces the vocabulary, logic, and application of a learners’ view (ALV) of learning. ALV replaces folklore about education and studies of learning that rely on hypothetical-deductive models. Talented educators unwittingly rely on folklore and this model of scientific to teach and assess its results.
ALV consists of descriptions of steps people take to to learn as reported from experimental behavioral and social science studies. These studies demonstrate ways educators and others have accelerated the amount and increased the depth and rate of learning promptly and sometimes dramatically.
Classic Education relies on the assumption that learning happens in and out of schools through a finite set of observable principles. Learners filter whatever we see, hear, feel, etc. through these principles to order a take-out breakfast, bake a cake, appreciate favorite music, write an autobiography, complete school assignments, and survive other situations of the moment. These uses include learning so called higher order thinking skills.
It features descriptions of ALV, that is, of choices learners make as we filter our senses to learn what the most informed people of civilizations said, did, and do. Applying these descriptions requires discipline.
Learners use these choices to adopt, adapt, manage, and extend the enduring information and skills known, used, and elaborated by the most informed people before them.
People use the same generic social patterns in and out of schools to adapt to the rules of their setting. Without these patterns, learning as we commonly use the word does not occur.
Classic education uses the finite set of observable (generic) vocabulary and logic patterns of people trying to solve a problem. Use of these options has lead to social benefits for learners unavailable in other ways. Parents, education practitioners, analysts, politicians, and others have used this view and its social patterns to raise rates of learning in and out of schools.
Descriptions of a learners’ view of how people learn have resulted from empirical experimental studies conducted by behavioral and social scientist over more than a century. Because of the rigor of these studies, we can measure their results n calculate their reliability. A voluminous peer reviewed behavioral and social science research literature and reviews exists elsewhere for those interested beyond the descriptions on this site.
Results of these studies permit people to plan, watch, listen to and analyze learning as it occurs. Parents, educators and others may use these behavior patterns to identify where to change their lessons and other practices in order to increase learning.
This site does not address views of scholars, educators, or other authorities who discuss and in other ways opine about education. It does not include discussions about schooling, teaching, curricula, venues for learning, and other topics open to interpretation, speculation, and politics.
Related Reading
- Behind Classic Education: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Choices…
- Folklore about Education
- Folklore about Learning
- Hypothetical-Deductive Models
Related Resources
Introduction to Classic Education Lecture Notes