811 Innovation in Teaching and

Learning~Definitions
Jennifer Crosson

Creativity
Creativity is imaginings and contemplations that generate ideas,
that prompt us to act.
Learning
Learning is the evolution and collective understandings of
experiences that are intrinsically and extrinsically motivated over a
life time.
Teaching
Teaching is learning and evolution of practises. It is attending to the
individual and collective needs and experiences of learners by creating
the conditions for inquiry. It is intentional instruction rooted in
student need. It is the ability to orchestrate all the processes to effect
students learning.
Innovation
Innovation is fostering and nurturing creativity in future
generations. It is unique qualities of individuals, traits of groups and
the collective need of each other. It is success from failure. It is deep
contemplation and response to problems that necessitate change.
Innovation is the imagined and re-imagined works of those who join
forces to create and move methods, that no longer meet our needs
ahead. Innovation propels our lives and civilization forward by never
imagined creations and accepted change that is actualized, to meet
new requirements. Innovation is determination, priority collaboration
and results coupled with necessity and desire to evolve and insure
human existence.


Learning
 Learning is the study of knowledge. It is a process of acquiring knowledge through
experiences such as reading, reflecting, and collaborating over time and constructing new
meaning and understandings of those experiences. It is the application of all the parts that
culminate and comprise learning.
Through investigation of literal translations of words I was able to narrow my focus thus,
enabling me to consult scholarly works to consolidate my understandings and working definition.
Lachman's (1997) work argues, that learning does not necessarily produce a change in behaviour,
and learning may not always be outwardly observable. These postulations support my definition
that learning is a process. De Houwer et al. (2013) agree with Lachman’s works and further
support my thinking that it’s over-simplistic to say learning always results in a change of
behaviour and that changes in behaviour may be explained by the genetic make up of an
organism coupled with learning. So, in considering the concepts that behaviour is a change which
results from learning and learning may not present itself immediately; regularities in the
environment, and the presence of multiple stimuli or behaviours at multiple moments in time
must occur.
Lachman, S. J. (1997, August, 12). Learning is a process: Toward an improved definition of learning. “Journal of Psychology”, 131
(5),477-480. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/00223989709603535
De Houwer, J., Barnes-Holmes, D. & Moors, A. (2013, January 29).What is learning? On the nature and merits of a functional
definition of learning. “Psychonomic Bulletin & Review”, 20(4), 631-642. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/
10.3758/s13423-013-0386-3