Everyday Scholars: Framing Informal Learning in Terms of Academic Disciplines and Skills

Autor/in	Jubas, Kaela
Titel	Everyday Scholars: Framing Informal Learning in Terms of Academic Disciplines and Skills
Quelle	In: Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 61 (2011) 3, S.225-243 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0741-7136
DOI	10.1177/0741713610380444
Schlagwörter	Adult Learning; Concept Formation; Informal Education; Figurative Language; Incidental Learning; Consumer Economics; Purchasing; Learning Strategies; Global Approach; Consumer Education; World Views; Intellectual Disciplines; Transfer of Training; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Inzidentelles Lernen; Konsumökonomie; Beschaffungswesen; Kauf; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Globales Denken; Konsumerziehung; World view; Weltanschauung; Geisteswissenschaften; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	This article discusses shopping, especially critical shopping, as a process of informal and incidental adult learning about the intersecting politics of globalization and consumption. The author uses academic skills and disciplines as a metaphor to respond to an emerging conceptual question: To what extent can formality, informality, and incidentalism be seen as aspects of adult learning? The author conceptualizes learning as a holistic process, with emotional, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions, and identifies five themes that illustrate how the multidimensional learning in an everyday process such as shopping incorporates all three aspects. These themes are referred to as learning to learn, learning to do research, learning to develop a philosophy of shopping, learning to build a shopping-related literacy, and learning to construct a shopper's geography. This metaphor helps convey the depth and breadth of everyday learning and blur the conceptual distinction between formal and informal or incidental learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10