INDIGENOUS LEARNING TECHNIQUES OF AGBALANI DANCE MUSIC OF OKPANAM IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Investigation of human learning has given rise to theories about how people learn and how learning is best achieved. Learning has generally been defined as growth, development and experience. It is acquiring new, or modifying existing knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves. Learning is not compulsory; it is contextual. It does not happen at once, but builds upon and is shaped by what we already know. Learning may be viewed as a process, rather than a collection of factual and procedural knowledge. The development of any society takes its root from the acquisition of skill by the individual members of that society.