Major editing of Main Page on Classic Education at EduClassics.com continues. Teachers said they liked the site, but they did not understand the connection between a learners’ view and its acronym ALV. They also asked for an explicit statement of the theory and philosophy of a learners’ view. They argued that it has to have a theory or people in the “teachers circle” will not use it. Teachers will try using a theory, but not something else. Editing continues on Main Page and articles linked to it to address these two concerns.
These are understandable concerns of teachers. ALV uses a technical-scientific vocabulary to describe accurate and precise relationships among what learners do with whatever teachers do to present lessons.
In short, editing is to clarify and simplify that both a learners’ view and ALV are names that refer to over a century of behavioral and social science research results that describe common patterns across studies of observable actions of learners while they learn. These descriptions are facts, not theories or philosophies. They stand on their own. Teachers do not need theories to generalize from study results to their lessons. Scientists have repeatedly tested and refined these facts empirically, thus reducing the amount of speculation about generalizing to lessons below the amount of speculation in theories and philosophies.