Abstract
This paper summarises three areas of debate in educational research, embedded learning, situated learning and unconscious learning, to see what light they throw on the emerging field of informal learning and formal/non-formal learning. It takes two cases which have been the subject of much recent discussion - political socialisation and learning in social movements - to illustrate the argument.
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This is different from “noncognitive skills” such as “persistence, integrity, leadership and motivation…,” Kyllonen 2012 np.
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Rogers, A. (2017). Learning: Embedded, Situated, and Unconscious. In: Street, B., May, S. (eds) Literacies and Language Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02252-9_13
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