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CRL launches The Expansive Education Network at Pearson's in London on 8th September
CRL commissioned by influential Parliamentary Skills Group to explore their ground-breaking research for the Edge Foundation, Bodies of Knowledge.
Guy Claxton in Australia, New Zealand and the USA this autumn.
CRL launches Expansive Education Network at Pearson in London
Over 80 people from across the world of education, made their way to 190 High Holborn on Thursday 8 September 2011 to witness the launch of the Expansive Education Network, hosted by our sponsor Pearson. This Network, the brainchild of Professors Bill Lucas and Guy Claxton is intended to provide a national and international forum for the development and exchange of ideas and development in teaching and learning. “Pearson has enormous expertise in this area and as it says, is always dedicated to learning,” said Bill, “so we are very excited and truly grateful that Pearson has been able to support us in this new thrilling venture.”
Guy in Australia and New Zealand
From 11-28 September, Professor Guy Claxton was teaching in Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, he presented workshops on Building Learning Power to the Catholic Schools of Victoria, the Victorian rural area of Gippsland, the Association of Independent Schools in New South Wales, the Australian College of Educators in Canberra, and he also gave a public seminar on creativity at the Australian National Portrait Gallery. In New Zealand, Guy launched the NZ Network of Building Learning Power Schools.
Guy presenting at Harvard
From 18-20 October, Professor Claxton will be presenting at a two-day seminar on Wisdom at the Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) at Harvard University. The audience will contain the Chief Learning and Innovation Officers from large US companies such as General Electric, Exxon, Cisco and Novartis.
Guy giving keynote in Atlanta
From 2-6 November, Professor Claxton will be attending an international conference on Creativity and Cognition in Atlanta, where he will deliver an invited keynote address on ‘Technology and Creative-mindedness’.
The Learning Powered School
Pioneering 21st Century Education
by Guy Claxton, Maryl Chambers, Graham Powell and Bill Lucas
Eight years on from the classic Building Learning Power, Guy Claxton and his co-authors show how the ideas and practice have grown and flourished.
"...a superb, innovative,and important program...These schools will turn out not just high achievers but great all-round learners and leaders." Professor Carole Dweck
Published by TLOLtd. July 2011
CRL launches Expansive Education Network at the University of Winchester
100 + teachers and educators attended The Expansive Education Network Conference at the University of Winchester on 27 June. Feedback has been very positive and many have already committed to membership.
CRL has teamed up with seven universities to launch an exciting new network for teachers who are passionate about creating powerful learners. eedNET is a network of teachers who are committed to the idea that 21st century education must be centrally about expanding young people's capacity to deal with real-world complexity and uncertainty and want to explore ways in which this vision can be turned into a practical reality.
eedNET will be both a Creative Commons where knowledge and tools are freely available and a membership space set up to encourage local networking. In addition to use of the member space on the site, members will be entitled to attend three sessions to learn how to lead a teacher enquiry using action research approaches. Sessions will be led by colleagues in the universities of Plymouth, Bath Spa, Wolverhampton, Manchester Met, Durham, Winchester, and in the Institute of Education in London. Teacher enquiries will be published on the site for other like-minded colleagues to use.
Bill Lucas book wins national award
rEvolution: How to Thrive in Crazy Times
has been named as Management Book of the Year in the category of Innovation and Enterpreneurship. Bill comments: "This accolade from the Chatered Management Instituute is a real honour. I hope it helps to bring the subject of adaptive intelligence and habit change to a wider audience. It's exciting to imagine powerful psychological insights being used by managers to respond to change more effectively in difficult times."
Centre for Real-World Learning wins major research and development contract from CCE
CRL has been selected by the national organisation Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) to explore the ways schools are currently assessing the development of creativity. The aim of the research is the development and trialling of a new framework which will enable teachers and students to track the progression and assessment of creative learning more effectively.
CRL hosted, jointly with the Psychology Department of The University of Winchester, a Syposium to celebrate the legacy of Fransico Varela. Varela was a massively influential cognitive scientist who's 1991 Embodied Mind laid the groundwork for the area of science now known as 'embodied cognition'.