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ERRR #050. Guy Claxton on the Learning Power Approach

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What Is the Learning Power Approach?

What is the learning power approach? Well, it follows from what we were just saying. It's lake for me, the journey to thelearning power approach has revolved really around three questions. Are some people better at attending than others? Are some people more curious than others, and so on? And if there are those differences, are they malleable? Or are they just genetically predetermined? Is it our destiny to be timid and unadventurous, as opposed to curious and exploratory? The third question, the practical question, is, can and should schools do anything about this? Is there anything that we could do in schools? Most of my work has restricted that question to

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