Learning About Learning

by Carnell; Eileen

• ISBN13: 9780415223492
• ISBN10: 0415223490
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-10-19
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This pack contains activities and ideas for teachers nad students to learn more about learning.Learning about Learningis a practical way of teaching important and neglected theories of learning. The idea is that if teachers and students learn about what learning is and how it happens they understand a greater range of learning possibilities and approaches and improve their learning and teaching skills.

Table of Contents

This book is about learning	1	(8)
Why bother with this book?	3	(1)
What is in this book?	3	(1)
How might you use it?	3	(1)
Rationale	4	(1)
Some permeating themes	5	(4)
Workshop activities for teachers	9	(34)
Where's the learner starting from?	12	(2)
Learning and 'motivation'	14	(3)
Learning styles - do we all learn in the same way?	17	(5)
Teachers and their pupils' learning styles	22	(2)
Terms for learning activities	24	(1)
Learning in school and out	25	(2)
A closed problem?	27	(1)
The six oranges puzzle	28	(2)
First steps in learning about learning	30	(2)
Promoting learning about learning, or meta-learning	32	(3)
Prompts to promote the stages in a cycle of meta-learning	35	(2)
What is an effective learner like?	37	(2)
Reflecting on your learning	39	(2)
Developing meta-learning in your school	41	(2)
Classroom activities to promote learning about learning	43	(32)
Introduction	44	(3)
How do we learn best?	47	(2)
Time line of learning experiences	49	(3)
Learning strategy questionnaire	52	(5)
Learning styles questionnaire	57	(3)
Beliefs about success	60	(2)
Handling feelings in learning	62	(2)
Defences against learning	64	(1)
Explaining your success	65	(1)
Learning - in school and out	66	(2)
Learning situations - in school	68	(2)
Learning situations - beyond school	70	(1)
Review of learning check list	71	(2)
Keeping a learning file	73	(2)
Back to the future: exploring and planning possible routeways to your preferred future	75	(1)
The wider context	75	(14)
Parents	81	(2)
Parents and learning	83	(2)
The whole-school picture	85	(1)
Developing a spiral curriculum for the whole school	86	(2)
Pupil perspectives on learning	88	(1)
Effective learning: a research review	89	(14)
What is learning?	91	(1)
What is involved? Models of learning	91	(5)
What is effective learning?	96	(1)
Effective learning in schools	96	(4)
The challenge of effective learning: questions and reflections	100	(1)
Notes for Section E	101	(2)
Further reading	103	(6)
Key texts on learning	105	(1)
Improving learning	105	(1)
Future	106	(1)
Important research articles	106	(3)
napce	109