Learning can be likened to a story writing. Students write the story entitled: My Life . There is a beginning. There is an end. And everything in between is what matters most. It is an act of gathering materials, lessons, experiences in life that can be of great use to students writing their story. Thus, activities of learning are focus on experiential aspects. There is a great emphasis on the process more than the result. Mistakes are highly appreciated in the learning process. It is through the pains and wounds that students can learn lessons in life, which they can use in their story writing. Models are introduced to students as inspirations, either persons or their stories from the past or present times. Learning in this context is not limited in the academic sense. Learning becomes a lifelong commitment. Learning becomes living, having life as the end result of the whole process of story writing.
Students are viewed as persons having something to share, a story to share, a story that is yet to be written. They are capable of directing the course of their own lives. Choices are vital in the process of learning. They are tasked to write their life-story in the process of learning. They are to be exposed to the realities of life: pain, joy, love, indifference, etc. Through this experiences, they can gather lessons they can include in the story of their life.
A teacher facilitates the process of learning by providing experiential and more engaging activities, activities from which students can learn about the realities of life. A teacher should introduce models, either from the contemporary times or from the past. Telling great stories, biographies and memoirs can be of great help too.
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