Lessons Without Limit: How Free-Choice Learning is Transforming Education - Softcover

Falk, John; Dierking, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759101604 ISBN 13: 9780759101609

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2002

Synopsis

Lessons Without Limit is not just another book about school reform but a highly readable guide to transforming the entire experience of learning across a lifetime. Free-choice learning is all about what you choose to do in your learning time. We learn every day-at home, at school, at work, and out in the world, from books, in museums, watching television, hearing a symphony, building a model rocket. Our motivations and expectations change over our lifetime but learning never stops. This book will give you a new understanding of the learning process and guide you in maximizing your lifelong learning journey.

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About the Author

John Falk is a law school graduate and freelance journalist. An article he wrote for Details magazine, entitled “Shot Through the Heart,” became an HBO movie and won a Peabody Award for Best Cable Movie of the Year. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Families on vacation explore museums. Retirees enjoy the opportunities provided by Elderhostel. Teens surf the Internet. School kids come home from a day of learning and plop down to watch Animal Planet, the Discovery Channel, or the Food Network. Learning is rapidly becoming the single most important leisure activity in our society. Free-choice learning occurs when people control what, when, where, and with whom they learn. As illustrated above, it can be done through TV or radio, books, museum exhibits, conversations, or the Internet. Falk and Dierking (Learning from Museums), founders of the Institute for Learning Innovation in Annapolis, MD, focus their latest work on lifelong learning, which requires possessing the skills, commitment, and capacity to learn throughout one's life. After explaining the hows and whys of learning, they take the reader on a journey through the learning process at each stage of an individual's life. While this is interesting reading, the best part of the book is saved for last, when the authors suggest how to reform American education to make their vision of a 21st-century learning society a reality, in part by integrating free-choice learning options into the lives of all citizens through a lifetime learning budget and a network of learning coaches. Their goals may sound idealistic, but they offer practical, down-to-earth advice. Recommended for academic and most public libraries.
Terry Christner, Hutchinson P.L., KS
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759101604
• ISBN 13: 9780759101609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208