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Finnish Youth Research Network

Experiences on Informal

Learning

Tomi Kiilakoski

18.04.23 Tomi Kiilakoski

On Learning – what the are actually talking about?

• "After many years during which I saw many things, what I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport and learned it in the RUA [Racing Universitaire Algerios].“ – Albert Camus.

• ”But first you must learn how to smile as you kill” – John Lennon

• ”Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you havent’t learned the meaning of friendship you haven’t learnt anything.” – Muhammed Ali

• ” Well I don't need anybody, because I learned, I learned to be alone / Well I said anywhere, anywhere, anywhere I lay my head, boys / Well I gonna call my home “ – Tom Waits

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Learning

• Institutional sense of learning: something that happens in schools

• Human sense of learning: something that is inseparable from human existence

• Peter Jarvis: Life itself is a reflective practice. All the different forms of thinking may be regarded as learning and many of them occur in the natural processes of everyday life.– If this is true, it makes as much sense to say we

only think in school than we only learn in schools.18.04.23 Tomi Kiilakoski

Quotes on Learning: the meaning of the social context

” So much of what has formed has not been events but precisely the uneventful, the nothing, the unnoted, that is happening, the coloration or camouflage of the everyday. The extraordinariness of what we accept as ordinary does not manifest its power over us until we are conscious at the same time of the ordinariness of the extraordinary.” – Stanley Cavell.


Quotes on Learning: the formal and informal

• ” One of the weightiest problems with which the philosophy of education has to cope is the method of keeping a proper balance between the informal and the formal, the incidental and the intentional, modes of education. When the acquiring of information and of technical intellectual skill do not influence the formation of a social disposition, ordinary vital experience fails to gain in meaning, while schooling, in so far, creates only "sharps" in learning -- that is, egoistic specialists. To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.” - John Dewey, Democracy and Education


Individual / group; formal / non-formal learning; structured / situation-based learning

31.10.2012 Myrsky-aineistonäyte_ei jakoon

Learning together


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You just have to find your own way of learning


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Different types of learning

Formal Non-formal Informal

Usually at school At institution out of school EverywhereMay be repressive Usually supportive/ SupportiveStructured Structured UnstructuredUsually prearranged Usually prearranged SpontaneousMotivation is typically more extrinsic / Motivation may be extrinsic but it is

typically more intrinsic / Motivation is mainly intrinsicCompulsory Usually voluntary VoluntaryTeacher-led May be guide or teacher-led Usually learner-ledLearning is evaluated Learning is usually not evaluated Learning is

not evaluated

The importance of practice

• ” How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of life?” – Henry David Thoreau

• Living and learning: interacting with the outside world and internalising the content of learning.


Social theory of learning

• ”Learning as acquisition” vs. ”Learning as participation”i.

• Components of learning• (1) community (“learning as belonging”)• (2) practice (“learning as doing”);• (3) identity (“learning as becoming”); and• (4) meaning (“learning as experience”) (Wenger,

1998, 5).

The importance of leisure time

21

11

20

32

18

32

47

31

14

38

51

38

60

81

64

82

41

30

40

53

52

49

46

51

41

45

44

52

34

18

34

17

26

43

14

12

25

16

5

14

15

9

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9

3

1

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13

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5

2

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5

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0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %

over 30 years10-30 years








Very important Quite important Quite unimportant Not important at all Does not belong to my leisure time

Importance of different aspects of life (%).

IT-skills

Listening to music

Studies

Outdoor activities

Leisure time

Friends

Nature conservation

Religion

Leisure time and friends are important to the young

Lähde: Tilastokeskus

The importance of friends

13,5%

15,2%

28,2%

27,6%

28,6%

24,5%

34,0%

68,1%

43,9%

50,5%

49,1%

39,7%

51,2%

35,1%

79,1%

63,1%

45,3%

49,5%

56,1%

55,3%

58,5%

60,0%

58,1%

30,8%

48,4%

44,2%

44,9%

45,3%

44,3%

54,2%

19,3%

33,7%

35,4%

32,6%

13,9%

13,8%

11,6%

14,2%

6,8%

1,0%

5,9%

4,6%

5,4%

13,3%

3,8%

7,6%

1,1%

2,4%

5,8 %

2,7 %

1,7 %

3,3 %

1,2 %

1,3 %

1,2 %

0,1 %

1,8 %

0,6 %

0,6 %

1,7 %

0,7 %

3,1 %

0,6 %

0,8 %

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Very important Quite important Not important at all Does not belong to my leisure time

Importance of different aspects of leisure time (%).

To be with the neighbours

To have my time well scheduled

To be with people of different ages

To devote to my hobbies

To enjoy the silence

To be in the nature

To be with the family

To be with my friends


Interesting life?

3,9%

2,3%

1,4%

,0%

30,8%

54,1%

37,8%

11,2%

53,4%

41,2%

57,5%

74,2%

12,0%

2,3%

3,3%

14,6%

0 % 20 % 40 % 60 % 80 % 100 %

Over 50 years

30-50 years

20-29 years

Under 20 years

Very boring Rather boring Rather interesting Very interesting

"Do you see your everyday life as..."

Life is interesting!


The role of technology in theory• Table 2. Evolution of learning from Web 1.0 to 2.0.• Learning 1.0 Learning 2.0

• Formal and structured learning • Informal and collaborative learning• Instructor led, Web-based, virtual and blended • Blended, blogs, wikis, Q&A, search• Command and control; top-down, push • Bottom-up; peer to peer, pull• Centralized content creation • Grassroots content creation• Management hierarchy • Mentoring, knowledge networks• Taxonomies • Tags• Scheduled, planned • Real-time, just in time• Company-identified experts • Community identified experts• Managed formal events • Enabled knowledge exchange

Gunawardena ym. 2009.

The role of technology in practice (Kaarakainen,

Kivinen, Tervahartiala)


Young as media users

• Social media activists• Intensive users• Contact-seeking users• Passive young


Learning and the young

”The most important thing for young people to learn today are to be able to orient themselves, to able to make choices that can be answered for, to keep up with everything, not waste their lives on a wrong thing, and to be able to decline in many situations where a choice has to be made. … The best security for the future seems not to be learning a subject on what are perceived as traditional premises, but to be ready to change and take hold of what is relevant in many different situations..” (Illerdis, Lifelong learning as a Psychological Process.)


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