learning reveals four broad components and three distinct
processes through which these components are enacted. The components,
include:
- Social. Learning is a social process. Knowledge is an emergent property of interactions
between networks of learners.
- Situated. Learning occurs within particular situations or contexts. Both “learning and
cognition...are fundamentally situated”, raising the importance of educational activities
mirroring actual situations of use.
- Reflective. Learners requires time to assimilate new information. Learners require the
“opportunity to reflect on, defend, and share what they have learned if it is to become part
of their available repertoire”
- Multi-faceted. Learning incorporates a range of theory, engagement, “tinkering” or
bricolage, and active construction.