The Learning Process

To start of this week, we were asked about the learning process. For me, learning is like Curious George, adopting his enthusiasm, curiosity, and inquisitiveness. He learns through being observant and testing out what he has seen in his own unique way. What we can learn from Curious George is that the learning process involves not only observing the world around us, but also being able to apply what we have learnt. This process then helps us transforms our observations into working knowledge. It helps us reach a higher state of learning, mentioned in class, where we are able to comprehend the world by reinterpreting knowledge. By applying our observations and knowledge, we are able to negotiate our own understanding of the world. 

Similarly, another student mentioned that learning is like being a child. It is being open, curious, and excited. Children also learn by observing and mimicking others. However, unlike Curious George, children have the ability to ask questions on just about everything. I believe asking questions is also fundamental in learning. Asking questions can help us receive different perspective and insights into an issue. Warren Berger, an acclaimed journalist focusing on design and advertising says, by asking questions we can “challenge assumptions about the way things have been done in the past,” and break out of old patterns and thinking behaviours. This mindset is one that I believe we would need to adopt in tackling issues of environmental sustainability. We need to be critical in the way we see the current world, in order understand what can be done to promote environmental sustainability.

            Going forth with this module, I hope to learn about current behaviours that are negatively impacting the world in order to change my own patterns to be a more environmentally conscious.