Professor Guy Claxton is the UK's foremost expert on practical ways of expanding young people's appetite and capacity for learning. His Building Learning Power approach has been tried, tested and developed in hundreds of primary and secondary schools.
Since September 2008, Guy has been Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Winchester. He previously held the same title at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education. He has a ‘double first’ from Cambridge and a DPhil from Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences.
An international expert on education and the brain, Guy Claxton has written over 20 books, including the acclaimed Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, The Creative Thinking Plan (with Bill Lucas), and Wise Up. His new book, What's the Point of School? Rediscovering the Heart of Education, has just been published.
Guy has consulted and worked with teachers all over the world and has been a regular visitor to New Zealand. He is that rare academic who is able to speak to both the daily realities and the hearts of practising teachers.
Guy is available for a limited time in October 2009 to work with schools and clusters. Contact Faye Hauwai for more information. |
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