Questions to Apitholo #29

Further questions to apitholo, about apithology and humanity inquiry ...

Question #29 – In what ways is humanity learning distinctive from human learning?

This question is asked from an advanced position. It is better to not trivialise the answer and hide its true erudition. It is asking about something outside of most people’s experience. Hence, there is in the answering no ‘already familiar thing’ to directly reference. A comparison, of what is to what might be, is helpful in this instance.

Human learning concerns human development and what is meaningful in the personal. In humans learning together there may be found many elements in common between them. However, the learning occurring is mostly forming within each person's own conception. A defining feature of learning by adults is selection of the specific from the general to satisfy particular motivations that may be personal and situational. The learning resides in the person.

In humanity learning the person is not central. The learning concerns capacities of openness in generative logics. The questions for learning are not directed to specific problems as reifications in human conceptions. There is an attending to the essential, being the formative that enables. Because the learner is different, the questions examined, are differently directed. Humanity learning progresses even with the departure of its participants.

There is a relationship between these two learnings, which is what makes their comparison so very interesting.

The idea of ‘humanity learning’ was first used in apithology theory on 10 February 2013. It was defined as: "The learning that occurs at the humanity scale, being an evolutionary pattern not of the teleology of increase, but the adaptability of becoming more than this.”. It was originally connected with the German term ‘aufgehoben’ ~ which ordinarily denotes the lifting of a restriction, but here has the more nuanced connotation of an 'uplifting' or '... of being in safe hands'.

The drawing of the distinction between human and humanity learning is one of the indicia of those truly arriving into this field.

They will know what learning for self looks like, and also know what ‘learning so as to become’ involves and asks of them.

It is at this moment of discernment that another question becomes apparent, being: What is the difference, practically, between andragogy (for adults) and apithagogy (for all humanity)?

Apitholo ~The Centre For Humanity Learning

"Pathways for the Humanity Contributive"

“If you hold some of apithology’s questions, you may as well ask for all of its answers.” - willvarey

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