School learning is the acquisition of knowledge, subject matter, information, understanding, and skill from teaching. Research on learning and memory provides teachers with essential scientific knowledge that is useful for understanding and improving...

For hundreds of years, learning meant the formation of associations, and was considered the means by which society transmitted its acquired cultural capital. Learning was the cliché which lay behind almost every explanation in the social sciences....

The process whereby an organism interacts with its environment and becomes changed by the experience so that its subsequent behaviour is modified. It will be noted that this definition encompasses a wider range of phenomena than those that would...

A man should learn to sail in all winds. (Italian) By ignorance we make mistakes, and by mistakes we learn. (Roman) By inquiring into old things, new things are to be learned. (Japanese) Either learn, depart, or submit to be flogged. (Roman) Even while...

A good man is always learning. (Roman) A little learning is a dangerous thing; all flowers are not in one garland. (English) A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. (Indian) Acquire learning, even if from the mouth of a cow....

Process of acquiring modifications in existing knowledge, skills, habits, or tendencies through experience, practice, or exercise. Learning includes associative processes (&see; association; conditioning), discrimination of sense-data, psychomotor and...

There are many definitions of the process of learning, depending upon the perspective one adopts towards the study of learning: 1. A more or less permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience. 2. The acquisition of knowledge, skills and...

1. Term used to refer to the type of learning that is facilitated by teachers providing primary experiences from which the learners can learn through induction. 2. Learning from all the experiences of everyday living, stemming from the work of John...

A permanent or lasting change in knowledge, skill or attitude that is the result of experience rather than maturation. (See also active learning, computer assisted learning, conditioning, distance learning, individual learning, instrumental enrichment,...

A learned man is never alone. (Spanish) A learned person always has riches within. (Roman) No one is born learned. (Spanish) The most learned are not the most wise....

A term used in Germany to typify adult education. It has three main features: a topic, an aim, and a continuing dialogue between teacher and...

One who learns for learning’s sake—one of Houle’s three types of learners. See also activity-oriented learner, goal-oriented...

The process of breaking down information to be learned into smaller sections and learning them...

A concept of learning that views the person as an active, growing and developing...

A quarterly journal, published by the Canadian Association for Adult...

Learning is the acquisition and development of memories and behaviors, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values, and wisdom. It is the product of experience and the goal of education. Learning ranges from simple forms of learning such as...