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%CONTEXT MOTIVATED PERSONAL LEARNING 811111
Humane learning occurs in supportive, rather than in
threatening, contexts. The kind of learning which occurs
flows from the context. The content of learning is in
part independent of the context; but the use to which
learning is put is largely motivated by the learning
context. Threatening contexts which engender fear teach
students to put their learning to threatening and fear-
engendering uses; supportive humane contexts teach
students how to cope in cooperative communal ways.
Depersonalizing contexts undermine dialogue,
community, and social structures. In depersonalizing
contexts students learn content along with motivations to
use what they learn in anti-communal competitive ways.
They use newly acquired knowledge as manipulative/coercive
means in contests of power and violence.
The means which teachers use to motivate students'
learning, teaches students the motivations which the
students will be prone to follow in making us of the
content which they were taught. If the teachers make use
of coercive, manipulative, fear engendering means to
promote learning; the students will learn from their
teachers motivations which are driven by the fear of
coercive manipulation, and will be directed to use what
they have learned to respond in coercive manipulative ways
to that fear.
It is important to attend to the quality of the
context in which students learn. What are the students
learning about themselves, interpersonal relations,
cooperation, values, motivations? It is important to
perceive what the students learn about their teachers and
how to cope with their teachers' failings. One key is to
focus upon what the students actually learn, rather than
just upon what the teacher intends for them to learn, and
upon which the teacher tests for. All teachers are
successful in teaching what the students actually learn,
but the question is what do the students actually learn.
What students actually learn depends upon the context
created by the dynamic interactions among students and
teachers in their personalizing and/or depersonalizing
relationships within and without the classroom. Learning
is always contextual.
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