Keywords
Informal learning—casual learning in the lifeworld – intrinsic, arising from within and to be found throughout, incidental.
Formal learning—deliberate, conscious, systematic and explicit learning; the kind of learning we call ‘education’.
Bureaucratic—learning organisations run according to rules and ordered by hierarchy; a setting where learners can attain ‘assisted’ competence, or learning that relies on sources of authority.
Self-managing—learning organisations that devolve a degree of self-governance to individuals and groups; a setting where learners can attain ‘autonomous’ competence, or learning based on the personal construction of knowledge.
Collaborative—learning organisations that conceive themselves as knowledge-producing communities, establish relationships of trust in teachers’ capacities to create learning designs and their learners’ to engage with negotiated learning tasks, and can form grounded, ‘out there’ relations that extend beyond the walls of the institution; a setting in which learners can attain ‘collaborative’ competence, learning by contributing from their own lifeworld experience, constructing knowledge with their peers, and connecting their new knowledge back into a variety of lifeworld applications.