Building Learning Power
Reading List
Guy Claxton
October 2007
John Baird and Jeff Northfield, Learning from the PEEL Experience, Monash University Press: Melbourne, Australia, 1992
Tom Bentley, Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World, Routledge: London, 1998.
Carl Bereiter C and Maria Scardamalia, Surpassing Ourselves: An Inquiry into the Nature and Implications of Expertise, Chicago: Open Court, 1993. BF455 BER
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith, The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education, Blackwell: Oxford, 2004.
John Bransford, Ann Brown and Rodney Cocking, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, National Academy Press: Washington DC, 1999.
Ann Brown, Transforming schools into communities of thinking and learning about serious matters, American Psychologist, 1997, vol52, 399-413
John Bruer, Schools for Thought: A Science of Learning in the Classroom, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Stephen Ceci, On Intelligence…More or Less: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1993.
Chiu C, Hong Y and Dweck CS, ‘Toward an integrative model of personality and intelligence: a general framework and some preliminary steps’, in RJ Sternberg and P Ruzgis (eds), Personality and Intelligence, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1994.
Guy Claxton et al, Liberating the Learner: Routledge: London, 1996.
Guy Claxton, Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life, Network Educational Press, Stafford 2001
Guy Claxton, Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners, TLO Ltd: Bristol.
Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, and Rebecca Luce-Kapler, Engaging Minds, Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ, 2000.
Carol Dweck, Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality and Development, Psychology Press: Hove, Sussex, 1999.
Howard Gardner, The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, Basic Books: New York, 1991.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ, Bloomsbury: London, 1996.
Susan Hart, Annabelle Dixon, Mary-Jane Drummond and Donald McIntyre, Learning Without Limits, Open UP: Maidenhead, 2004.
Rachel Jupp, Ciara Fairly and Tom Bentley, What Learning Needs: The Challenge for a Creative Nation, Design Council: London, 2001.
Ellen Langer, ‘A mindful education’, Educational Psychologist, 1993, 28, 43-50.
Ellen Langer, The Power of Mindful Learning, Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA, 1997. BF636
Bill Lucas and Toby Greany, Schools in the Learning Age, Campaign for Learning: London, 2000.
Barbara McCombs and Jo Whisler, The Learner-Centred Classroom and School, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 1997.
Barbara MacGilchrist B and Margaret Buttress, Transforming Learning and Teaching, Paul Chapman: London, 2005.
David Perkins, Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds, Free Press: New York, 1992.
David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence, Free Press: New York, 1995
David Perkins, Eileen Jay and Shari Tishman, ‘New conceptions of thinking: from ontology to education’, Educational Psychologist, 1993, 28, 67-85.
D.C. Phillips and J.F. Soltis (eds), Perspectives on Learning, Teachers College Press: New York, 2003.
Peter Senge and others, Schools that Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Nicholas Brealey: London, 2000.
Michael Shayer and Philip Adey (eds), Learning Intelligence: Cognitive Acceleration Across the Curriculum, BF457 LEA
Louise Stoll, Dean Fink and Lorna Earl, It’s About Learning (and it’s about time), RoutledgeFalmer: London, 2003.
Geoff Southworth, How primary schools learn, Research Papers in Education, 2000, vol 15, 275-291.
Michael Tomasello, The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, CUP: Cambridge, 2001.
Peter Vaill, Learning as a Way of Being, Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 1996. LB1692 VAI
Chris Watkins, Learning about Learning Enhances Performance, Research Matters, No. 13, National School Improvement Network: Institute of Education, London, 2001
Chris Watkins, Classrooms as Learning Communities, RoutledgeFalmer: London, 2005, LB1025 WAT
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