ABSTRACT
How Learning Happens introduces 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably. Many of these works have inspired researchers and teachers all around the world and have left a mark on how we teach today.
Exploring 28 key works on learning and teaching, chosen from the fields of educational psychology and cognitive psychology, the book offers a roadmap of the most important discoveries in how learning happens. Each chapter examines a different work and explains its significance before describing the research, its implications for practice, how it can be used in the classroom and the key takeaways for teachers. Clearly divided into six sections, the book covers:
- How the brain works and what this means for learning and teaching
- Prerequisites for learning
- How learning can be supported
- Teacher activities
- Learning in context
- Cautionary tales and the ten deadly sins of education.
Written by two leading experts and illustrated by Oliver Caviglioli, this is essential reading for teachers wanting to fully engage with and understand educational research as well as undergraduate students in the fields of education, educational psychology and the learning sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|50 pages
How does our brain work?
part II|63 pages
Prerequisites for learning
chapter 7|9 pages
Why independent learning is not a good way to become an independent learner
part III|38 pages
Which learning activities support learning
part IV|66 pages
The teacher
chapter 17|8 pages
Why discovery learning is a bad way to discover things/why inquiry learning isn’t
part V|42 pages
Learning in context
part VI|45 pages
Cautionary tales