highlights education and development
highlights education and development
Critical thinking is the application of appropriate skills and strategies in order to obtain the desired outcome. It involves monitoring thinking processes, checking whether progress is being made towards the…
Learning through enquiry is a good pedagogical approach. For example, the ‘enquiry’ approach is often used to describe a philosophical approach to developing learners’ thinking, for example in schools where…
Learning by attempting to solve real-world problems can be a highly effective means of developing expertise. Learn PBL from Medical Education ‘Problem-based learning’ (PBL) is an enquiry-based approach to problem-solving…
Robots today are already capable of designing programmes, writing, speaking, walking, cooking, preparing drinks, navigating cars, ships, aeroplanes and a million other activities! Will they be able to take all…
Learners themselves can learn by teaching and helping one another. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1) developed the concept of ‘communities of practice’. This refers to groups of people undertaking…
Conversation in the workplace sometimes referred to as ‘watercooler talk’, is an essential aspect of learning (1). Ann Baker and colleagues have shown precisely how an executive team goes about…
Feedback is a learner’s primary mechanism for charting progress. Feedback is also a central element of formative assessment (1). Feedback in education involves four elements: Data on the actual level…
In our exploration of vocational learning from the perspective of the ‘learning sciences’ we proposed that there are five different kinds of practice (1): ‘Getting the feel’: on first trying…
See "Seventeen effective pedagogical methods in vocational education" According to the writings of Aristotle, imitation is the first way in which people learns. Today, although the science of imitation and…
Learning how – or how not – to carry out an activity by watching others is a very common way of learning. Taking a cross-cultural perspective on human development, Barbara…
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