Tuesday, 22 October 2024

What Science of Learning?

 Professor Guy Claxton

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There's no such thing as THE science of learning

The sciences of learning range much more broadly than teaching maths and science

Learning - transforms experience into lasting changes into competence, character and comprehension

"What do they to be able to do AND who do they want them to BE

Learning Scientists 

Roger Schank

"learning is about failure and recover from failure"

"Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach"

"A properly designed school system needs to focus on cognitive abilities, not scholarly subjects... If we allow students to choose what areas of knowledge they would like to 


There is no such thing as 'best practice': it depends on values

Desirable Outcomes of education: What is it that all our young people are likely to need to :

Know (lifeworthy eg chemical bonding vs anxiety and depression)

Do (literacies/expertise)

Be like (attitudes / habits)



Ksa or Ask?


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