Expanding the capacity to learn

Expanding the capacity to learn (pdf)

Wonder

• Why do we need to think differently about education?
• What does research say about learning?
• Is all this learning to learn just a throw back to the 1960’s?
• Is there some important thinking going on … about learning?

Read

• Expanding the capacity to learn – Professor Guy Claxton
• The paper was given as the keynote speech by Professor Guy Claxton to the British Educational Research Association conference in September 2006.
• It offers a swift overview of why young people need to experience a deeper approach to learning in preparation for an increasingly complex life in the 21st Century.
• Note especially the section entitled ‘So how might we do it?’, exploring and explaining the extent of educational change. It offers a sense of the scope of the issues and how they might be addressed.

Reflect

• What does this mean for my school, my subject, my teaching?
• Would this be worth the effort for our students?
• Which aspects of this paper really ‘spoke’ to me?
• What needs to happen now…as a result of this new thinking