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Peer reviewedBuchmann, Margret; Schwille, John – American Journal of Education, 1983
Looks at what is entailed when education and experience are regarded as equivalent. Identifies faulty inferences resulting from learning by experience. Considers how experience can close avenues to conceptual and social change. Argues that ideas based on secondhand information are more likely than firsthand experience to manifest both the real and…
Descriptors: Education, Epistemology, Experience, Experiential Learning
