ELE - Contexts
Contextualising Learning
Advancement
Belief Systems
Cultural Hertiage
Environment
Gender Issues
Globisation
History Repeats
Knowledge is Power
Natural Resources
Urbanisation and Waste Management
Weather Patterns
Course Outline and Units of Work prepared by
Dr Lynne Vey
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by :
Lynne Vey (2004)
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The setting of a context allows students to negotiate the terms of reference which informs their interpretations of the learning demands rather an abstract source of authority which restricts learning
Exploratory Learning Environments
Choice of contexts allows students to self pace their learning
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Exploratory Learning Environments (ELE) do not direct students towards some predefined cognitive state, rather create they stimulating environments to contextualise learning outcomes enabling students to be active participants in the process.
Learning is a natural process and when situated in a place that challenges, provides intervention and offers feedback, and which supports learning, enables learners to broaden their understanding, become critical, informed and competent in creating their own realities.
Strategies to promote learning 'by doing' as one of the most specific approaches in learning theories by Dewey, Vygotsky, Piaget, Bruner, Kant, Rousseau, Socrates, Freire, Giroux and Luke.