Learning becomes not simply of knowledge and skill the internalization by an isolated mind interacting with a physical surround or even with a surround containing humanly produced artifacts. Rather,
the organism- environment relation is one ofinterpenetration and of reflexively constitutive activity. The learning environment is not one designed at a distance by a curriculum developer or by a teacher as a First Cause and Unmoved Mover, as if the educator were analogous to the eighteenth century Deist's conception of a watchmaker God who builds the universe, winds it up, and then stands at the margins of Creation, letting it run its course.