Basic Types of Learning

Learning is wide-ranging

Learning takes many forms and works in many different ways

From "knowledge lean" to "knowledge rich"

The Problem with Research

Lab settings over-simplify a complex process

Often focuses on Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic societies

Knowledge Lean

Habits

Patterns

Knowledge Rich

Facts

Inferences

Can be implicit--unconscious or untaught--or explicit--intentional and mediated