Creative Leadership Learning

An Enquiry Project for Senior Leadership Teams
and Local Authority Officers in South Gloucestershire

Project Team: Louise Stoll and Julie Temperley, with colleagues

Learning is, and should be the core purpose of schools. In essence, these days: “If you can’t learn, unlearn and relearn, you’re lost because sustainable and continuous learning is a given of the twenty-first century”¹. However we construe the outcomes of schooling, we have to ensure that every child and young person is “equipped to seize learning opportunities throughout life, to broaden her or his knowledge, skills and attitudes, and to adapt to a changing, complex and interdependent world“². This means paying much greater attention than ever before to the processes of learning, to personalising learning³, and to learning to learn more effectively: “the key skill of the century”⁴. What’s more, a growing body of evidence highlights that learning about learning enhances performance.

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References :

^[1] Stoll, L., Fink, D. and Earl, L. (2003) It’s About Learning (and It’s About Time). London: RoutledgeFalmer.

[2] Delors, J., Al Mufti, I., Amagi, A., Carneiro, R., Chung, F., Geremek, B., Gorham, W., Kornhauser, A., Manley, M., Padrón Quero, M., Savané, M-A., Singh, K., Stavenhagen, R., Suhr, M. W. and Nanzhao, Z. (1996) Learning: The Treasure Within - Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century.  Paris: UNESCO.

[3] For example, Leadbetter, C. (2004) Learning about Personalisation: How Can we put the Learner at the Heart of the Education System? Nottingham DfES Innovation Unit.

[4] Lucas, B. (2005) Discover Your Hidden Talents: The Essential Guide to Lifelong Learning. Stafford: Network Educational Press.
 

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