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To begin with, learning has always to do with the myriad ways in which people engage with thoughts, questions of meaning, arguments, propositions and criticisms. Therefore, learning has some inter-connection with the individual and social self. For instance, arguments are always proffered by one and in turn another one makes meaning of these arguments or takes arguments into systematic controversy. What follows from this is that learning happens when one connects with the thoughts of others and in turn offers some of one’s own thoughts on an issue to the other.
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Waghid, Y. (2012). On Learning and Cosmopolitanism in Education. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Evans, K., Bagnall, R. (eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_6
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