Educating Powerful Learners

Guy will introduce and illustrate the new 'fourth generation' approaches to 'learning to learn', as it applies in both educational and other settings. The days when we thought learning styles, study skills and bottles of water were the bees' knees are over. We now know how to teach systematically in a way that not only enables students to learn what they are supposed to, and to pass their exams, but also, at the same time, to develop the capacities and dispositions that will enable them to be confident, powerful, all-round, real-life learners. And that is what 21st century education ought to be about.

Professor Guy Claxton is one of the UK's foremost thinkers on creativity, learning and the brain in both business and education. John Cleese called Guy's 1997 book Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less 'The essential guide to creativity', and prompted him to say, of Guy's thinking, 'Just occasionally I get the feeling that somebody has said something important.' He has been invited to teach at the London, Lancaster and Open University Business Schools. Guy is academic adviser to The Mind Gym, inventors of 'bite-size learning at work', whose Managing Director, Octavius Black, says: 'It is too early to tell if Guy Claxton is the Mikhail Gorbachev or the Bill Gates of the learning revolution - what is for certain is that his insights provide a blueprint for a radical re-think about how we help people learn more effectively.' Guy's practical work on 'building learning power' in schools, colleges and workplaces is transforming our approach to education and he is much in demand internationally. He was an invited speaker at the massive 11th International Conference on Thinking alongside Edward de Bono, Peter Senge and Arie de Geus. His speaking style is powerful, passionate and entertaining. Guy is Visiting Professor of Learning Science at the University of Bristol, where he directs the research initiative on 'culture and learning in organisation' (CLIO). He is the author and editor of 20 books on learning and creativity.

This keynote presentation will be interpreted into British Sign Language.

Due to contractual restrictions, the video of this seminar is no longer available.