Purpose Learning
Direct Learning
From [1] - Directness is the idea that you best learn a skill when you practice it in the environment you plan to use it in. For example, if you want to be a great public speaker, rather than buying a book on public speaking, find opportunities to practice public speaking.
We avoid being direct in our learning because we either don’t want to step outside of our comfort zones, we’re uninspired, or it’s time-consuming. For example, we download an app or buy a book because, although this method doesn’t produce long-lasting results, reading about a skill provides a sense of satisfaction without the need to practice it. But if you want to truly master a skill or topic, always immerse yourself in opportunities for direct practice.
Directed Learning or Direct Instruction
Objective, purpose, task-oriented learning is a critical component of Pedagogy. However, Direct Instruction (DI) in pedagogy is a technical term that refers to highly scripted, sequenced learning, but not explicitly connected to Purpose Learning or Direct Learning.
Direct Learning is supposed to be the learning of things directly related to accomplishing things, physical, mental, or spiritual. It is not learning theory first - it is practice first - from which more profound theory can be learned. Theorists accomplish amazing things - such as Einstein in E=mc2 - but the downside is the atomic bomb. Practitioners, on the other hand, obtain a more integrated perspective because they are not armchair theorists, and thus have a more entrepreneurial perspective. They are Eu-entrepreneurial. However, practitioners, such as Buckminster Fuller, are nothing without sufficient Moral Intelligence to collaborate. I say this because even Fuller believed in patents.
What we need is Purpose Learning - https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/winter-2022/purpose-learning-reimagining-what-and-how-students-learn/ - Think-feel-do - as an antidote to the Factory Model of education.
But also note that purpose does not always have to be benign, in its unambiguous form. Good to Great points this out - in that some 'great, enduring' companies have dubious purpose, such as Philip Morris.
OSE Integration
OSE recognizes 2 elements of effective learning - directness and practice. Directness implies