Indeed, "these challenges can pose serious barriers to learning and acquiring expertise in a discipline, and they have significant implications for instruction, especially if instructors are not aware of them" (NRC, 2012, p. 191).
His title of master of arts indicates that he had acquired sufficient learning to be entitled to teach.
This is a practical kind of knowledge that comes in degrees and it is best acquired by learning to solve problems of the form: How do I get from A to B? Can I get there without passing through C? And what is the shortest route?
And just like any other acquired skill, from learning to play tennis or a musical instrument to driving a car, there is a structured set of appropriate behaviors to perform and a set of rules of engagement for executing these appropriate behaviors that must be practiced on a continuous basis.
Personal familiarity is considered to be acquired through learning after birth, by repeated experiences with other individuals such as caretakers.
Indeed, it can be argued that the most serious challenges to integrity are not due to individual failures but to structural factors, for example the squeeze on university funding, the priority many students put on acquiring degrees compared to learning, and the funding of research by groups with vested interests.
However given the good levels of satisfaction on questionnaire testing it is likely that participants would not have been averse to incorporating newly acquired learning into their day-to-day practice.
Frankly, if you don't have the right attitude--if you don't want to learn--you won't be able to learn. A. Acquiring the information.
Those who are able to turn acquiring and advancing learning into a career at a university are, in addition to being fortunate, generally at the top of their game.
It emphasized the student as a learner, collaborator, designer, and connector, with specific direction to move project-based learning (grades 6 8, developing products) to problem-based learning (grades 9 10, focus on solving problems and acquiring knowledge) to practice-based learning (grades 11 12, focus on real-world STEM experiences through internships and early college learning opportunities).
