Learning with and through others

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Denham Grey writes: "My thoughts around learning have been profoundly altered by reading Wenger, Brown & Duguid and von Krogh and focus on collective workplace practices. Have come to appreciate the role, value and importance of social learning, situated learning, learning in community and culture. That more is learned on the playing fields and in discourse with peers than from the sage on the stage. Even in very structured training situations, it is the breaktime conversation, the secondhand explanation from a colleague that situates the new concept, validates its importance and sanctions its legitimacy."

He argues that learning is a process in which interaction with others is essential. I think of the time that I spend learning that is a more solitary pursuit. I would argue that the type of learning, and the context of the learning would help determine whether learning could/ should be a solitary or communal task.