What is Education? Part 2 – Redefining Education and Learning

So society’s definition of education is based upon learners seeking some sort of societal approval through accepted actions in order to participate in and be rewarded by society.

Compare that to the LDE definition of Education which is based on learners processing their context and then acting within that context in order to meet long and short term needs.

Based on this definition, processes of Learning include:

~       exploring and theorizing about context in order to understand it

~       a change in the methods of processing the Learner’s context

~       a change in a Learner’s means of accomplishing goals based on a change in context or processing context

~       taking steps to meet long and short term needs

Evidence of Education includes:

~       meeting needs

~       a continually evolving understanding of context and methods for processing

What are some basic needs that Learners seek to meet with Education?

~       physical

~       mental

~       emotional

~       spiritual

Those are pretty broad and obvious categories, but are there any more?

What kind of impact for society would there be if more people adopted these, admittedly underdeveloped, ideas?

~vbb