How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice

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As the sparkle of inspiration enters our bodies, we are animated with a video game style turbo-boost. The layout of How Learning Happens is very clever in that each section builds on the last to help the reader understand the what, the why and the how for each key reading. I strongly suggest reading it because it shows how many fashionable instruction practices have little scientific bases and efficacy.

A few weeks ago, Paul Kirschner contacted us and said that he co-wrote a new book with Carl Hendrick and wondered whether we would be interested in reviewing it in form of a blog post. It is through this methodology that Kirschner and Hendrick demonstrate that, while we may know the best examples of evidence-based practice, when it comes to application of that practice, there is more than a “one and done” approach needed. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. When it comes to music, we intuitively know that nobody wants to read the lyrics of an album before they listen to the music.To be honest, we can’t think of any reasons why educators or those with aspirations of becoming educators wouldn’t want to read this book. It’s no surprise that one of the most popular videos about him on YouTube has the words “fun” and “imagine” in the title. Even physics, which impacts every waking second of our lives, needs to be made relevant with stories, metaphors, and examples. I'm dipping into the book as needed and it's a really fantastic introduction to some key theories and concepts in educational psychology.

The papers are grouped into six distinct fields: how the brain works; prerequisites for learning; how learning can be supported; teacher activities; learning in context; and, perhaps most interestingly, cautionary tales and the deadly sins of education. For a while I resented this system because I realized that the hoops of education were mostly a sham. Part 5 elaborates on different social influences on learning, comprising situated cognition, cognitive apprenticeship, and communities of practice.Altamente recomendado para os leitores que se interessam pela ciência dos processos de aprendizagem. 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 is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Carl Hendrick teaches at Wellington College, UK, and holds a PhD in Education from King’s College London. Thus, if you want to learn more about – let’s say – feedback you can move to chapter 20 ( “Feed up, feedback, feed forward”) and understand it – without having read the preceding chapters.

Though we can use Hollywood techniques, we shouldn’t outsource inspiration to the industrial entertainment system.The book brings everything into one place with many signposts to further reading, referencing and QR codes to video links. He’s revered not just for winning awards like the Nobel Prize, but for making physics come alive for so many people. Enjoyable learning begins with inspiration—both to get you started and to help you push through the struggles of knowledge acquisition. Clear, practical and informative, this is a useful resource for teachers at any stage in their career. Each key text is supported with a section on classroom implications and key take homes for educators.

As for books, he is co-author of How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology, Evidence Informed Learning Design, Urban Myths about Learning and Education and More Urban Myths about Learning and Education as well as of the highly successful book Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and editor of two other books (Visualizing Argumentation and What we know about CSCL). It's hard to overstate just how fabulous this book is; a book I've wanted to exist for years and now here it is. But that’s exactly what we do whenever we ask students to memorize nitty-gritty details without inspiring them in a way that makes learning inevitable. Since the school system operates at scale, it tends to squash things that are hard to predict, even if they reflect a student’s unique interest. It can even cause people to resent the learning process because they associated it with fight-or-flight levels of stress.The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice.