Comments on the article by Orwoll and Achenbaum in this issue. Suggests that Orwoll and Achenbaum present a concept of wisdom as multidetermined and approachable in a scientific model and that their effort to examine wisdom is undertaken in a context of cross-disciplinary study. (BC)

Adolescents often pursue learning opportunities both in and outside school once they become interested in a topic. In this paper, a learning ecology framework and an associated empirical research agenda are described. This framework highlights the need to better understand how learning outside school relates to learning within schools or other…