Cynefin and a Girl's Birthday

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jay Cross[Edit][Delete]: Cynefin and a Girl's Birthday, Informal Learning [Edit][Delete] May 25, 2006

"Imagine organising a birthday party for a group of young children. Would you agree a set of learning objectives with their parents in advance of the party? Would those objectives be aligned with the mission statement for education in the society to which you belong?" It seems so obvious when you put it like that, and yet so many theorists insist that education (and learning) is something different. More...