Context matters

"Eduction is not about teaching people, it's about people learning. Now we're going back to something we used to do, which is learning by doing, rather than learning just by listening." - JP Rangaswami. (2010)



The school of the future is an active school. A school where you can learn by doing. Where you can develop practical experiences. Where you learn skills that will be of use in the real world.

One of the most explicit ideas about innovation in education is experiential learning. This comes in many forms and sizes, from a nursery to higher education. The idea is that by imitating real situations as closely as possible, students gain experiences they can apply directly in future practice. In secondary education, this may involve a project in which students set up a small business.

In nurseries, kids are often involved in acting based on impulses. The kids are playing their game while the teacher is giving them impulses. New things are brought forward and the kids just pick the concepts. By playing, trying and discovering themselves, children learn in an intensive way. This is experiencing by trial and error.

Source: New World of Learning (VANERUM Group).