Learner tales

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Not everybody learns in a standard, predictable, appropriate way. Yet most education is built around the idea that we can all learn to travel the same learning road. As a teacher, I have met a lot of unusual learners in my life. Just being with them is often an education because they somehow manage to find their own way to learning. I think it’s time they had a voice.

For this section of the blog I have decided to go out and meet some unusual learners. Sometimes they are highly qualified with strings of diplomas, but often they are self-taught, or at least had to find a way to take control of their own learning to make it work. Do these people enjoy learning? Which paths do they create or follow in order to learn what they want, the way they want to learn it, in spite of all the obstacles? By collecting their testimonies and publishing them in portrait format as Learner Tales, I hope to create a corpus of these experiences before they disappear completely.

Each published portrait will be in English and in French as these are the two languages used on this blog.

I will also occasionally share some learning experiences of my own.

What about you? Would you describe yourself as somebody who likes learning? Do you learn easily or do you have to work at it? Do people see you as an able learner or somebody who is constantly challenged? How do you feel about being seen like that? Can you recall somebody teaching you something which you were actually able to learn? Did that involve adjustments or adaptations on your part? Can you recall finding your own way to learn something? What was that like?

These are just some of the questions we’ll be pursuing in Learner Tales. Maybe you have a contribution to make to this section? Please let me know via the Contact Form.