The Importance Of Practical Learning

Education is the key foundation of our society. Although it has the reputation for evolving less rapidly than almost any other industry, education sector is constantly looking at ways to improve our schools, school system and the learning process of children. From the traditional3 R’s subjects, books and blackboards, we are now gearing towards a progressivist view and approach to education.

The education sector to further advance the quality of education had acquired some of the new trends in education. First is the skill based learning, students learn better through hands on experience. Practical learning is one outside the classroom. The learning comes when children volunteer to make a difference and taking away a meaningful experience through

Epistemological beliefs are coming to their own after 40 years or so of research. Slowly but achieving an impact. Although individual learning styles are taught in college it’s now high time that elementary school students are made aware of this.

Metacognition also plays a role in successful learning. It refers to a level of thinking that involves active control of the process of thinking that is used in learning situations. Planning a way to approach a learning task, monitoring comprehension and evaluating the progress towards a completion of a task. Some evolutionary psychologists hypothesize that metacognition is used as a survival tool, which would make metacognition the same across culture.

With the progressive points of view of curriculum, according to Smith, Stanley and Shores when they defined “curriculum as a sequence of potential experiences set up in the schools for the purpose of disciplining children and in group ways of thinking and acting. Marsh and Willis on the other hand view curriculum as ‘all the experiences in the classroom which are planned and enacted by the teacher, and also learned by the