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Learning in a Different Era: do our education systems do enough to enable learners to flourish as independent, autonomous and well‐balanced individuals?
Author(s) -
Cheng Kaiming
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/ejed.12119
Subject(s) - instinct , learning society , prime (order theory) , adult education , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , lifelong learning , mathematics , combinatorics , evolutionary biology , biology
There is a prime necessity to make a distinction between education and learning . Learning is a human instinct. Education is not. Education is about learning processes designed by adults for the young. In the past two centuries in the industrial era, education has developed into society‐wide school systems. Young people are expected to go through such systems.