Whether or not we accept the eight categories into which the meta-review grouped
the diverse enactments of learning that were evident in these studies, or whether we
agree that learning as product or residue is fundamentally distinct from learning as
process, it is difficult to discern much commonality among these understandings.
Knowledge acquisition achieved by an individual is arguably a wholely different
phenomenon to ongoing human development (emotional, intellectual, social), but also
distinct from networks of information flow, or levels of knowledge-making. Processes
of meaning-making may share links with the embodied activity of joint participation,
but one exists in a world of human interpretation and its representation while the other
is located among webs of imminent material enactments. These phenomena appear
related, but they are different. Different and the same at once, co-existing, sometimes in
the same space. They are messy objects.