Abstract
A less cynical version of Oscar Wilde’s famous statement has often been used in classrooms as ‘we learn from our mistakes’ or ‘we learn from experience’. From these perspectives the job of the teacher, it seems, is to guide the young person towards added insights regarding their experience. Learning comes from being reflective and thinking critically upon issues and events linked with guided classroom experience. All commendable aims that ought to encourage quality learning outcomes. If only the educative process could be regarded with such simplicity! The task of teaching the discipline of geography would be relatively straight forward — as it appeared to be in former times.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes (quoted from Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892).
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Robertson, M. (2003). Experience and Learning in Geography. In: Gerber, R. (eds) International Handbook on Geographical Education. The GeoJournal Library, vol 73. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1942-1_7
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