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“The primary purpose of education is to enable the learner to take charge of

his/her own personal construction of the meaning. Any educational event rep-

resents a shared action to seek an exchange of meanings and emotions between

student and teacher. Whenever the student and the teacher are able to agree

and share the meaning of a unit of knowledge, meaningful learning occurs.

(…) Meaningful learning underlies the constructive integration of thoughts,

feelings and actions and it leads to empowerment aimed at engendering com-

mitment and responsibility” (J.D. Novak).

What is the learning process and how does it occur? How does the stu-

dent behave when he/she learns? Learning, as we were taught by the

constructivist proposal, and as we will soon examine, is not in the rst

instance, a solitary activity, but a social fact, as it happens in a relational

context of sharing with others and their culture. It is understood that “

the

teacher does not determine the learning process. Learning is an on-going process,

which may use teaching as one of the many structural resources. (…) The teach-

er and the teaching materials become learning resources in many complex ways

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(B.M. Varisco), the teacher appears therefore as the “co-manufacturer of

learning environments”: he is not the one who transmits or reproduces

accurate information, but he who knows how to set the basis for an in-

teraction with the environment, the context, so that learning becomes

a constructive process, contextualised and collaborative. Learning is the

result of a reciprocal exchange, it does not end with the acquisition of

concepts and notions that, maybe, one day may or may not be useful,

but it must provide the student with the skills to “learn continuously”;

constantly “learning to learn”. A student who is able to organise his/

her own learning, using knowledge and ability to achieve new knowl-

edge, will also be able to connect new ideas and materials to the existing

knowledge, even and especially after the school process.