Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century: The 6-step Plan to Unlock Your Master-mind

Colin Rose; Malcolm J. Nicholl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074991761X ISBN 13: 9780749917616

Publisher: Piatkus Books, 1997

Contains a six-step programme designed to help readers develop core skills that enable them to learn faster, improve their memories and think creatively. The authors recognize that each individual has preferred ways of learning and offer numerous practical exercises and case histories.

From the Inside Flap:

n era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.

Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and student must master, and every teacher should teach: it's learning how to learn. The theory of eight multiple intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist) developed by Howard Gardner at Harvard University provides a foundation for the six-step MASTER-Mind system to facilitate learning (an acronym for Mind, Acquire, Search, Trigger, Exhibit, and Review), and is enhanced by the latest findings on the value of emotion and memory on the pro