A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, The Oxygen Of Social Life.

Definition (POC): 1.a Practice of using tools of educators to increase life chances, life choices, and personal benefits of learners, including through non-school settings. b Occurs after receiving an invitation from a custodial relative of a child. c  Application of virtual symbolic family estates to accelerate, increase, and deepen learning promptly in non-school settings.

2. Started with the request in 1967 of Ann Sanford for an alternative to student teaching in a classroom.

3. a Term adopted in 1967 by Bonnie Cook to distinguish her participation in the empirical research project of Robert W. Heiny at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from conventional student teaching in school classrooms. b Adapted the term from the practice during previous decades in the southern U.S. of teachers instructing children in cotton and other fields.

4.  a Project about which Bonnie Cook coined the term Child Advocacy in Fall, 1967, to represent the social patterns she and other field teachers used. b  Project from which the term Child Advocacy emerged to represent the latent, but still unnamed learners’ view of learning.

5. Name of the project about which Robert J. Stachowiak coined the term Field Teacher Alliance to represent the common efforts of a growing number of child advocates working in diverse settings each named a Neighborhood Learning Center (NLC).

6. Classic Education: A Learners’ View of Choices during Teaching and Learning describes how learners adopt, adapt, and manage social patterns they use to learn, including a classic education in the 21st century.

Related Reading

1. A Learners’ View (ALV) in One Lesson
2. Child Advocacy
3. Classic Education: A Learners’ View of Choices during Teaching and Learning
4. Field Teaching Lecture Notes
5. Life Chances
6. Life Choices
7. Neighborhood Learning Center (NLC)
8. Personal Benefits
9. Virtual Symbolic Family Estate

Related Resources

1. Altstein, H. (1972). Field teaching and the social process. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (3) 188-191.
2. Cunningham J. J. Field teaching: A means for educators to work in non-school settings. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Council for Exceptional Children, Washington, DC, March 1972.
3. Cunningham, J. J. The field teacher as social researcher. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, Minneapolis, May 1972.
4. Dokecki, P., Scanlon, P., & Strain, B. (1972). In search of a transactional model for education. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (3), 182-187.
5. Farber, B & Lewis, M. (1972). Compensatory education and social justice. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (2), 85-96.
6. Gregory, R.J. (1972). To the rescue of child advocacy. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (2), 119-125.
7. Harvey, D.L. & Heiny, R. (1972). The teacher as social critic: An examination of Neighborhood Learning Center Activities. Peabody Journal of Education, 49 (2), 104-118.
8. Heiny, R. Cunningham, J., Edgar, G., Lukenbill, R., & Yancey, W. (1972). Field teachers: An introduction to an alternative to schools. Peabody Journal of Education, 49 (2), 83-84.
9. Heiny, R., Cunningham, J., Edgar, G., Lukenbill, R., & Yancey, W. (1972). Field teachers: Reflections, responses, rebuttals. Peabody journal of Education, 49 (3), 175-176.
10. Heiny, R. &Cunningham, J. J. (1972). Field teaching: A social history. Peabody Journal of Education, 49 (2), 97-103.
11. Heiny, R., Cunningham, J. J., & Stachowiak, R. (1975). Final Report: Field teaching training program – A report of one year of planning and prototype activities. Nashville: George Peabody College.
12. Karnes, M. & Zehrbach, R. (972). Reaction to articles on field teaching. Peabody Journal of Education, 49 (3), 177-181.
13. Lewis, W. (1972). Response on field teaching. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (3). 202-201.
14. Salvia, J. & Harder, W. (1972). Field teaching: Romance and reality – a response. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (3), 192-196.
15. Stachowiak, R. (1972). Book review: Critics of Society: Radical Thought in North America. Peabody Journal of Education, 49 (2), 247.
16. Thomson, R.P. (1972). Response to field teaching essays. Peabody Journal of Education. 49 (3), 197-201.