Lesson 7:Direct Purposeful Experiences and Beyond

Is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solution to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning. Is a very board item. It is the application of scientific findings in our method, process or procedure of working in the field trip of education in order to effect learning. It embraces curriculum and instructional design, learning environment, theories of teaching-learning. It is also a filed study and a profession. It is the use of all human inventions for teachers to realize their mission to teach in order that students learn.

    Direct purposeful are those firsthand experiences that make up the foundation of our learning. It lead us to concept formation and abstraction.They make us learn concepts and skills effectively by giving our student the opportunities to learn by doing, immerse our students in the world of experience, let us make use of real things as instructional  materials for as long as we can.  and lastly is we should help students develop the five senses to  the full to heighten their sensitivity to the world. These direct experience must not be the period of the end. We must be brought to a higher plane which is referred to here is the level of generalization and abstraction. Indirect experiences are those experiences of other people that we observe, read or hear about.

     Persons learn through the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. In the five senses sight has a greater percentage that are the people easily learned through seeing which has 75% followed by hearing(13%) then touch(6%), taste(3%) and smell (3%).