Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Researchers have continued to investigate the nature of learning and have generated ...

“Learning,” management guru Peter Drucker said, “is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Nikhil Arora takes that view very ...

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Suggested Citation: "2 Context and Culture." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures ...