Underlying Support For Contextual Learning
Contextual Learning builds upon bodies of literature that include theories and writings by John Dewey (1900), Jean Piaget (1929), Jerome Bruner (1966), and theories of Constructivism. Thus, it is an extension of past thinking, theories, testing, and writings. More contemporary work has included syntheses by Lauren B.Resnick and Megan Williams Hall (1998). Examples of theories and themes that relate to Contextual Learning are:
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“If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.”
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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.”
—Bible: New Testament Acts, 26:24.
Said by Festus, the Roman Procurator.