A Lone Star or Part of a Constellation: Creating Synergies and Blurring Boundaries Across Formal and Informal Settings of Learning

Abstract

Based on the learners' agenda for active participation in and contribution to their own learning, this chapter argues for the possibilities emerging when reimagining learning as a social, student-centred process, spanning across a person's life as well as across contexts. In this chapter, learning is acknowledged as a community issue, a shared responsibility that is facilitated and encouraged through co-constructed collaborations and cross-sector interactions. By drawing upon the current societal and economic changes and needs, this chapter invites readers to realise the potential of bridging different contexts of learning. Facilitated through the use of technology, it discusses the use of Web 2.0 in a digital history co-creation movement as a way to develop synergies across museums, libraries, archives, schools and the urban space as well as a means for growing these collaborations stronger. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)