Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAEGbKX01629; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:37:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:37:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <sdd38a7d.020@langate.gsu.edu> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2403] Re: students/learners X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 26 Last night in my graduate class, I asked students whether they would like to be called students or learners. Here are the results: Student: 5 Learner: 8 I don't care: 2 The people who wanted to be called Learner stated: 1. A student does not necessarily imply learning. You can be a warm body. However, learner connotes active learning. 2. Student feels more like a label of inferiority compared to the instructor. Learner feels more equal, because we all learn in the classroom-even the instructor. 3. A student implies learning from the instructor. A learner implies learning from the instructor AND fellow learners. 4. Learner implies more freedom and a voluntary reason for being in the classroom. Those who wanted to be called Student stated: 1. I like to be a student in the classroom. Out in the real world, I am a learner-constantly learning different things. But the classroom is more official learning and therefore I am a student in the classroom. 2. In reality, we are not all equal in knowledge in the specific content area that we are learning in the course. That is why we are the students and the instructor is the instructor. Daphne Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303-3083 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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