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Learning to Learn can serve as something of a paradigm for excellence in education and learning. It can also function as a helpful text for reflecting on the meta-competencies required to be fully efficient in contemporary vocational contexts. ... Educators will benefit from reading this book ... This material represents an excellent source for advancing new research, while at the same time offering useful applications for educators' practices in their individual higher educational contexts. -Reflective Teaching All in all, the book covers a wide compass and is certainly of interest for anyone who wishes to pursue the notions behind learning to learn and its connection with lifelong learning [...] It is a book that deserves to be read with interest by those who profess the business of learning. - John Cribbin, International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning This book draws on leading international contributors to provide a cutting edge overview of current thinking on research, policy, and implementation in both formal and informal learning environments. -Martina Visentin, PHD, Dept. of Political Science, Law, and International Studies at University of Padova, Italy

Learning to Learn can serve as something of a paradigm for excellence in education and learning. It can also function as a helpful text for reflecting on the meta-competencies required to be fully efficient in contemporary vocational contexts. ... Educators will benefit from reading this book ... This material represents an excellent source for advancing new research, while at the same time offering useful applications for educators' practices in their individual higher educational contexts. -Reflective Teaching All in all, the book covers a wide compass and is certainly of interest for anyone who wishes to pursue the notions behind learning to learn and its connection with lifelong learning [...] It is a book that deserves to be read with interest by those who profess the business of learning. - John Cribbin, International Journal of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning This book draws on leading international contributors to provide a cutting edge overview of current thinking on research, policy, and implementation in both formal and informal learning environments. -Martina Visentin, PHD, Dept. of Political Science, Law, and International Studies at University of Padova, Italy

Learning to Learn can serve as something of a paradigm for excellence in education and learning. It can also function as a helpful text for reflecting on the meta-competencies required to be fully efficient in contemporary vocational contexts. ... Educators will benefit from reading this book ... This material represents an excellent source for advancing new research, while at the same time offering useful applications for educators' practices in their individual higher educational contexts. -Reflective Teaching

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Ruth Deakin Crick, MEd, PhD, is Reader in Systems Learning and Leadership in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol. She is one of the originators of the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory, a self-assessment tool for developing learning power. Her research focuses on the implications of complexity and systems thinking for pedagogy. She co-directs the Learning Emergence network. Cristina Stringher, PhD, is a researcher at the Italian Institute for the Educational Evaluation of Instruction and Training (INVALSI), and a lecturer at Roma Tre University. She currently serves as a member in the Project Advisory Committee of IEA's Early Childhood Education Study. Her interests focus on theoretical and empirical research in learning to learn development, with its lifelong and lifewide applications. Kai Ren is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Education, China Shaanxi Normal University. He is also a member of the learning power research team at the Graduate School of Education, Bristol University. Kai’s research focuses on learning to learn and how it relates to people's identities and stories.

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