Posts Tagged "social learning spaces"

We all have a unique trajectory through the landscape of practices that constitute the human world. All these practices have in some way contributed to shaping who we are. And the resulting identity is a unique perspective on the world. As we participate in different social learning spaces our actions affect those spaces. They also affect the people we interact with. And those people belong to other social spaces. So our own learning behavior can affect the learning capability of a whole landscape of learning spaces. Taking responsibility for managing this participation in and across different learning spaces is what we call “learning citizenship”. It comes in different forms. Learning citizenship might simply be the quality of our engagement in a given...

Hopefully we all know them… those contexts where you feel like you are able to have really meaningful conversations with people about your experience of and involvement in practice. You feel that you can be who you are as a learner. Communities, workshops, events, co-authoring… they can all give rise to those kinds of interactions where you feel like you are engaged with learning partners in pushing the envelope. That’s what we mean by social learning spaces: …social containers that enable genuine interactions among participants, who can bring to the learning table both their experience of practice and their experience of themselves in that practice. Not all attempts to bring people together to learn create social learning spaces! They involve a social...