Learning to learn

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Today we will talk about Learning to learn.  


'Learning to learn' is the ability to pursue and persist in learning, to organise one's own learning,

including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups.

When students can direct their learning and know how they learn best, they can also better

navigate the wide range of available choices in school and beyond. Learning to learn is

particularly important when teachers are no longer a main source of information and

knowledge.

 






‘Learning to learn’ is often used as a magic formula to meet the increasing informational

demands of society and technology. Although ‘learning to learn’ should be an important

part of daily life in secondary schools and classrooms, it turns out to be a very difficult

goal to achieve. For most schools and for most teachers it is not even clear how ‘learning

to learn’ should be operationalised and implemented. Teachers use the concept in many

different meanings and define the concept in individual and idiosyncratic ways


‘Learning to learn’ is an important educational goal. Despite this consensus, it is not clear how

‘learning to learn’ is or should be implemented. Actually, teachers are using ‘learning to learn’ in

many different meanings and it is being implemented in many different variations. According to

Hounsell (Higher Education 8 (1979) 453), two groups have been distinguished: a group of

teachers having a broad vision about ‘learning to learn’ and a group of teachers with a narrow

vision. These two groups are described in terms of their functions, task conception, conception

of the learning process and the students and their instructional approach. Teachers learn how

to teach students and the teacher learns about what will be taught. So, It’s important.

Nowadays, the educational community agrees that ‘learning to learn’ cannot be taught in a

separate course but has to be embedded in regular courses. As a consequence, individual

teachers should pay attention to ‘learning to learn’ in their courses and teach how the

particular subject matter has to be studied (Elshout-Mohr, 1992; Ramsden et al., 1986;

Weinstein, 1994). The advantage is that students can practice with the regular subject

material, which guarantees to some extent the occurrence of transfer.



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References:

 

www.youthpass.eu

http://reforma.fen.uchile.cl/Papers/Learning%20to%20learn%20-%20Waeytensa,%20Lens,%20Vandenberghe.pdf

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