Translations:

Other Pages:

Modules

Site Map

Key Words

Contact

Utility Documents

Useful Links

by Phil Bartle, PhD

12. What Is Learned Must Be Practical, Immediate, and Useful:

There are many similarities (to learning literacy) with the aural method of learning an oral language, described in another document of this site: Aural.

One important element these methods share is that what is learned should not be learned by rote and in isolation from every day activities. If you are thirsty, learn how to say "Give me water," and it will stick better (be retained). Especially if, by saying it, someone gives you a glass of water. What about learning to write the sentence, "Give me water," and by doing so you receive a glass of water?

Positive reinforcement.

Learning should be existential. That is why you, as a mobiliser, should become very knowledgeable about the community, and what things are important to its members. Those things should be the basis for generating content in the learning projects that you organise.

Notes on all of the above (long document)

Back to the list of principles

Back to the principles handout

© Copyright 1967, 1987, 2007 Phil Bartle
Web Design by Lourdes Sada

––»«––

Last update: 2012.08.31