ABSTRACT
Learning to learn involves learning strategies like planning ahead, monitoring one's performance to identify sources of difficulty, checking, estimating, revision and self-testing. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reviews the teaching of study skills which has developed from the realisation that many students and pupils fall short of their potential, because they do not know how to set about the task of study. It examines the broader notion of learning strategies. The chapter reviews three approaches to improve the capacity to learn: direct training in learning strategies; modelling, where the teacher describes how she works in order to direct attention to the process of learning; and encouraging discussion of metacognitive strategies such as self-monitoring to develop insight into managing one's mental processes. It explores the place of learning strategies in the curriculum.
