Overview

Project-Based Learning is a buzzword, but what if we shifted it to People-Based Learning? In this insightful book, researcher and experience designer Jane Shore offers a practical guide to building a People-Based Learning orientation in schools, workplaces, and everyday life. The approach reframes learning as something we do with and through one another, where students, colleagues, and communities can all be teachers, guides, and learners. Learning is not just the transfer of knowledge but the cultivation of connection. People-Based Learning emphasizes shared experiences, co-created knowledge, and human relationships over isolated, text-based approaches. It values diverse perspectives, hands-on collaboration, and real-world application. It also nurtures essential capacities: seeing others, managing ambiguity, learning how to learn, cultivating self-awareness, demonstrating discernment, grappling with ethics and values, and recognizing interdependence and complexity. Accompanied by evocative visuals and hand-drawn art, this book invites readers to both see and feel the possibilities of People-Based Learning. By learning from people as much as from content, we create environments where knowledge is deepened, skills are sharpened, and dispositions for lifelong learning take root. Together, we can build cultures, whether in classrooms, teams, or communities, where every voice is heard, every story is valued, and learning flourishes in the richness of our shared humanity.

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""Brilliant and deeply human. People-Based Learning is a welcome call to return to how we learn best—through connection."" —Dr. Marissa King, Distinguished Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection ""People-Based Learning beautifully articulates something many of us intuitively know but rarely name: we change by learning from each other, and learning is a living experiment shaped by relationships. Essential reading for anyone thinking about the future of education, work, or community."" —Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs and author of Tiny Experiments ""It's often a hollow cliche to declare that ""learning is social."" Jane Shore's expansive look at history, pedagogy, human development, and art grounds that sentiment in a rich picture of what's possible when we center learning on and in connection, not just content. What if rising generations got to attend schools that let them out into the world and welcomed the real world in? What if those schools didn't just claim to be communities, but felt like them? What if those schools allowed kids to better know others and themselves, and in turn be capable of and inspired to shape the world they occupy together? With a deft hand, delightful drawings, and detailed activities, People-Based Learning illuminates the path to building these schools, one scientific study and strategy at a time. The approach is at once softer and bolder, more real—and in turn, more rigorous—than conventional education reforms. The result? A vision for a system of education grounded in the kind of wisdom, creativity, and connection that our kids need, our adults crave, and that our emerging economy actually demands."" —Julia Freeland Fisher, Director of Education Research, The Clayton Christensen Institute and author of Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations that Expand Students' Networks

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Jane R. Shore is the founder of School of Thought and a learning scientist and gathering strategist known for meaningful connections and memorable experiences. Shore helps individuals involved in teaching and learning across settings connect with innovations and each other, co-creating human-centered, People-Based Learning through her convenings, writing, and advisory work. She has served as a workshop facilitator and a keynote speaker at national and international education conferences and has been publishing in academic journals for almost two decades.

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