Research

This section identifies current research in the area of Personal Learning.

Expanding the Capacity to Learn: A new end for education? (http://www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk/blp/Extras/Downloads.html) - Professor Guy Claxton has done a lot of work around the idea of building the learning capacity of young people by focusing on developing learning dispositions as well as learning skills. Expanding the Capacity to Learn: A new end for education? is Professor Claxton's opening keynote address at the British Educational Research Association's annual conference, held in September 2006.

Building Learning Power by Guy Claxton
This book contains detailed key points and strategies about how teachers can help young people develop lifelong learning dispositions. It supports teachers in their efforts to create a culture in the school and in the classroom that cultivates habits and attitudes that enable young people to face difficulty and uncertainty calmly, confidently and creatively. The book gives a systematic introduction to the mind of the effective learner in terms of the four Rs: resilience, resourcefulness, reflectiveness and reciprocity.

This book is available from Hawker Brownlow Education, Melbourne.

The Era of Lifelong Learning: Implications for Secondary Schools (http://www.acer.edu.au/research_reports/Lifelong_learning.html) - Jennifer Bryce, Tracy Frigo, Phillip McKenzie and Graeme Withers. This paper explores what it might mean to be a lifelong learner in a secondary school. It outlines the role that secondary schools can play and approaches that teachers might consider when developing strategies to support young people to develop skills, attitudes, habits and dispositions to manage their personal learning and become lifelong learners. The paper attempts to mesh the Australian employment and self-advancement view of lifelong learning and the Japanese purposeful and self-improvement view. The focus is on the most appropriate approaches to learning, both from the Australian and Japanese perspective.