Active learning is an umbrella term that refers to several models of instruction that focus the responsibility of learning, on learners. Bonwell and Eison (1991) popularized this approach to instruction (Bonwell & Eison 1991). This "buzz word" of the 1980s became their 1990s report to the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). In this report they discuss a variety of methodologies for promoting "active learning." However according to Mayer (2004) strategies like "active learning" developed out of the work of an earlier group of theorists—those promoting discovery learning. While there is no question that learners should be engaged during learning and cognitively active, several researchers have noted that being behaviorally active during initial learning can be detrimental to schema acquisition (Mayer 2004) (Kirschner, Sweller & Clark 2006) (Sweller & Cooper, 1985; Cooper & Sweller, 1987).
Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, and values from one generation to another. Child (plural: children) is generally a human between the stages of birth and puberty. Mostly, a child is a human being below the age of eighteen. Some vernacular definitions of a child include the fetus, as being an unborn child.[1] The legal definition of "child" generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. "Child" may also describe a relationship with a parent orauthority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties.