“非正式学习”论纲

Brief Review on Informal Learning

非正式学习是西方国家新兴的一个研究领域,对于深刻认识人类学习的本质具有重大价值。一般通过对比较学校环境中的正式学习来界定非正式学习,其主要特征是学习活动蕴涵于日常生活实践之中,与结构性的教学距离较远。非正式学习的理论基础是社会文化理论,研究的方法论主要是比较法,而在收集数据时,定性和定量的手段均被采用。

Informal learning has become a burning area for research in western countries, which is valuable to the exploration of the nature of human being＇s learning. In general it is defined by comparing formal learning inside school with informal learning outside school. Thus its main features are that it occurs in the contexts of real daily practices, far away from structured pedagogy, etc. Informal learning is grounded in the social-cuhural theory and comparison is its basic research methodology. Both quantitative and qualitative methods can be used in collecting data.