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Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life (Visions of Education) (Paperback)
Short Description for Wise UpThe new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone has the capacity to become a powerful, lifelong learner. In this book, Guy Claxton teaches us how to raise children who are curious and confident explorers, and how we ourselves can learn to pair problem-solving with creativity.
Full description- Publisher: Network Educational Press Ltd
- Published: 01 June 2001
- Format: Paperback 388 pages
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- Categories: Learning | Educational Psychology | Adult Education, Continuous Learning | Teaching Of A Specific Subject
- ISBN 13: 9781855390997 ISBN 10: 185539099X
- Sales rank: 376,803
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Full description for Wise Up
From the author of the bestselling Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, comes a breakthrough book on the future of learning. The new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone has the capacity to become a powerful, lifelong learner. We can all learn how to learn; it has little to do with conventional intelligenec or educational success. Guy Claxton teaches us how to raise children who are curious and confident explorers, and how we ourselves can learn to pair problem-solving with creativity. Wis Up is essential and compelling reading for parents, educators and managers alike. Guy Claxton is Visiting Professor in Psychology and Education, and Director of the Research Programme on Culture and Learning in Organisations (CLIO), at the University of Bristol. He is the author of thirteen published books, including Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind.
