Root to the Skyline

    Learning Outside of the Classroom: An Introspective Look I could have indicated a classroom, a desk, or perhaps a pile of textbooks if you had asked me years ago where learning takes place. I saw education as consisting of pupils taking notes, a teacher using a whiteboard, and orderly rows of chairs. However, as I've gotten older and more experienced, I've come to understand that genuine learning frequently occurs in life's muck. during times when there was no official lesson plan. I didn't start drawing links between these life experiences and deeper learning theories until I started studying educational psychology. Names like Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner suddenly became more than just figures from my books; they were voices I had heard before on my own path. My real experience was given meaning by their ideologies. As it happens, learning is more than just consuming knowledge while sitting motionless. It's about building understanding, frequently via self...