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Learning: a sense-maker's guide
Learning: a sense-maker’s guide is a timely publication and an essential contribution to the debate about teaching and learning. As the title suggests, this book is not merely about making sense of learning. Importantly, it aims to help the reader to make critical sense of the plethora of new ideas about learning and to use what is available selectively and intelligently. When Chris Watkins was commissioned to write this publication, we chose an author who we knew to have extensive knowledge about learning and about learning to learn; the writing skills to communicate effectively with his audience; and the energy and enthusiasm to do the job really well. He was asked to: • summarise the ‘best’ of what is known about learning • look at ways in which what we know about learning may inform what teachers do about learning • take a critical view of current offerings which claim to be...
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