Lifelong Learning – More than Training

Learning is a perpetual process, not just confined to the walls of educational institutions!

Fischer in his article, emphasis the need to promote effective educational opportunities in many learning settings through which people pass, including home, school, work…organizational and collaborative learning must be supported because the individual human mind is limited. And teachers, more than other members of society, need to be lifelong learners.

Teaching is often fit ‘into a mold in which a single, presumably omniscient teacher explicitly tells or shows presumably unknowing learners something they presumably know nothing about’ (Bruner, 1996). Has this impoverished and misleading concept been reformulated? Lifelong learning needs to be supported by new media and new technologies. It’s a co-evolutionary process between fundamental human activities and their relationship and independency with media.

We have to break away from conventional forms of learning and take risks leading to innovative learning. Each teacher has its own unique teaching style and pedagogy. We try different activities in class to motivate and engage students to facilitate the learning process. But teachers have to deliver within parametric constraints, which are mostly conventional. We are progressing and evolving, but not quite there yet.