Landscape

The learning landscape refers to the conditions that shape what can be learned, by whom, and with what consequences.

These conditions include institutional norms, incentive structures, power relations, risk tolerance, time horizons, and prevailing ideas about what counts as valid knowledge.

Learning does not take place on a neutral surface. The same learning activity can produce very different outcomes depending on the landscape in which it is situated.

LUCA begins with the landscape because many learning failures are not failures of method, but failures to recognise the conditions within which learning is expected to operate.