Learning in the Social Context (Notas de estudio 3.17.20)

Learning in the social context

Source: Peter Jarvis, ch. 3 in Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning (Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society, Volume 1) (New York: Routledge, 2005), 52-58.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008VSEKQI/

Inventory of concepts and questions

Format code for the questions:

Italics: Questions I raise about the text
Bold: Explicit questions the author raises in the text
Plain: Implicit questions the author raises in the text

Questions

Page 52

• What is preeminent reality?
• In what way is the world complex?
• What are the social factors that contribute to this social context of learning?
• What is sociology?
• What is Jarvis’ sociology?
• In what way does the word precede our temporality?
• The life world is about our own consciousness

Concepts

• We are ‘in-the-world’
• ‘Inter-personal relationships’
• ‘impersonal relationships’
• ‘life-word’
• the ‘social context of learning’
• ‘stream of consciousness’

Page 53

• What is the nature of our life world?

• where do those dimensions come from?

• what are the social contexts in which learning occurs?

• how is our learning affected by the context in which it occurs search questions?

• where is intersubjective understanding?

• what constitutes a meaningful life?

• what is our degree of autonomy in society?

• A disjuncture’

• ‘experiential learning’

• ‘culture’

• ‘time’

• ‘space’

• ‘intersubjective understanding’

• ‘society as a system’

• ‘society as life world’

Page 54

• What do people commonly regard as learning?

• how do different people react to and learn in similar situations?

• what is the significance of time in learning social situations?

• ‘The teachable moment’

• ‘subcultures’

• ‘preconscious learning’

Page 55

• What are the types of space in which live?
• how does our exposure to different regions through globalization contribute to our multiple identities?
• how does the place in which we are situated affects the experiences we have from which we learn?
• how does culture related to identity and experience?
• how does culture relat to space and time?

Culture

• How is culture nature restructured to serve our needs?

• What is culture?

• ‘Time’

• ‘space’

• ‘social space’

• ‘experience’

Culture

• ‘Culture’ as nature reconstructed to serve our needs
• culture as ‘second nature’

Page 56

• How does multiculturalism affect our sense of security, sense of community membership And self identity?
• how should we consider the act through which man meets the challenge of survival?
• what is the common route of knowledge and action?
• how is learning a social necessity?

Primary socialization

• Are we born ‘tabula rasa’?

• ‘to learn to be’

• ‘existential anxiety’

Primary socialization

• The ‘external functioning of culture’ and
• the ‘internal functioning of culture’

Page 57

• What kind of phenomena have we learned pre-consciously in the womb?

• And how important is that learning for our learning after birth?

• In which way does culture become our won subjective reality?

• Is it ontologically or epistemologically? Is it both? And how are they related?

• Is it then a ‘socialized’ reality?

• Are ‘arbitrary’ meaning and ‘intrinsic’ meaning the only alternatives to explain language?

• A ‘subjective reality

• The process of ‘socialisation’

• ‘Language’

• ‘primary socialization’

• ‘secondary socialisation’