Learning to Learn - the Fourth Generation: Making Sense of Personalised Learning - Softcover

Guy Claxton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901219526 ISBN 13: 9781901219524

Publisher: TLO Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

How do children learn? Can they be helped to do it better? If so, what is involved? And is learning to learn L2L an accessory to the core business of schools, a distraction from it, or a new way of thinking about what that core business really is? In this timely essay Guy Claxton, himself an eminent pioneer in the field of L2L, looks back over the evolution of the idea and assesses the state of the art. He points out some of the false starts and blind alleys that have been made as the field has evolved over the last twenty years. But he argues that these pioneering ups and downs are inevitable, and that we have actually made great strides in identifying the powerful learner s habits of mind, and how to strengthen them. In his characteristically authoritative and entertaining style, Guy Claxton guides us through this brief history, and lays out the exciting future that is in store. Where the early pioneers saw L2L in terms of revision advice and mnemonics, and their successors talked in terms of learning styles and brain-friendly learning , the science of learning now offers a very much deeper and more challenging vision of what is possible. The capacity to learn is much more elastic than we thought even a decade ago, and there is now a good deal of ingenious case-law about how to stretch it. Indeed, Claxton argues that this body of work provides a powerful way of making coherent sense of the current fascination with personalising learning . L2L is not just a way of customising school s traditional offerings; it can set young people up able and average alike to meet life s challenges with greater confidence and capacity.

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About the Author

Guy Claxton is Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Bristol s Graduate School of Education. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books, including the best-selling Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, The Wayward Mind and Building Learning Power. His practical ideas about how to expand young people s appetite and capacity for learning have influenced educational theory and practice in many countries, including New Zealand, Australia and Brazil, as well as in the UK. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: TLO Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901219526
• ISBN 13: 9781901219524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28