We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Each key text is supported with a section on classroom implications and key take homes for educators. Future historians of education will look back on this period as a Renaissance; a time when dogma and orthodoxy were being challenged, and gate keepers, priesthoods and shamans felt the ground shift beneath their feet.

Enjoyable learning begins with inspiration—both to get you started and to help you push through the struggles of knowledge acquisition. A rather strange claim about the typing efficacy of children on page 27: "most kids today can type as fast as a teacher talks". Plenty of examples are included and there is always a discussion of how the ideas from each chapter can be used in teaching.That said, the authors are not afraid to cut down persistent examples of received wisdom and popular ideologies (the assumed benefit of using ICT, discovery learning, etc) through their “Cautionary Tales” and “10 Deadly Sins of Education”.

I will definitely add this book to the reading list for my Service Learning module – where students learn about different learning strategies and then create and deliver How-To-Study tutorials in local schools.It not only keeps up with the latest findings, but also seeks sincere, authentic dialogue with the seminal works. The implications of cognitive science and educational psychology are presented in an accessible and thought provoking manner with clear thinking points for application to the classroom. is Emeritus Professor Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands, Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Mechelen, Belgium, Honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) at the University of Oulu, Finland, and owner of kirschner-ED which carries out educational consultancy, masterclasses for teachers, school heads and educational policy makers, and keynotes/presentations at conferences and other educational get-togethers. To date, they haven’t really had to focus on inspiration because they’re guaranteed a captive audience. When the pain of the status quo hurts more than the pain of discipline, people are capable of extraordinary feats of learning.

This is helpfully split into a number of chapters which are titled: ‘How the Brain Works’, ‘Prerequisites for Learning’, ‘How Learning can be Supported’, ‘Teacher Activities’, ‘Learning in Context’ and ‘Cautionary Tales and the Ten Deadly Sins of Education’.

A World War I video on YouTube piqued his interest and led him to all kinds of books and documentaries about the war. The book further reveals the cumulative nature of learning knowledge as a perpetually changing process that is redefined and built upon previous knowledge and discovery. This Renaissance has been accompanied by an evolution, as teachers and academics reach out to one another and seek sincere, authentic dialogue.