After describing a situation where learning and the “learner” seem “blocked”, Bill explores the creative ways teachers address situations like this. Together, Bill and Paul discuss the multiple issues that arise when learning new/different knowledge, skills and dispositions (habits) and using them in daily work. Their conversation explores traps that commonly occur and an overview of ways to start.
Guests
Bill Lucas
Professor of Learning and Director of the Centre for Real World Learning, Winchester University, UK.
More about Bill
Bill’s research focuses on understanding dispositions for learning that help people succeed and flourish in life, including how these dispositions can be cultivated and made evidence-based. Bill co-chairs the strategic advisory group of the new PISA 2022 (Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international standardised education research study of 15-year-olds of Creative Thinking) and advises international bodies on education such as the State of Victoria in Australia, the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, and the LEGO Foundation.He is a founding member of the Rethinking Assessment movement.
Bill’s work in health and social care includes his part-time role as Director of Fellowship Learning for THIS Institute at Cambridge University. Previously he co-facilitated and initiated the Health Foundation’s improvement science fellowship scheme with Professor Paul Batalden. Bill’s Habits of an Improver model is increasingly used across the UK’s health systems.
Bill has authored more than eighty books and many research reports. In 2020 Bill co-authored the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education. His most recent report is Rethinking assessment in education: The case for change. His 2015 critique of the English education system, Educating Ruby: what our children really need to learn, written with Guy Claxton, asks challenging questions about the future direction of schools.
Bill discusses the pedagogy of coproduction with Paul.
Supplementary materials
Readings
Perkins D. Making Learning Whole: How seven principles of teaching can transform education. 2009; Jossey-Bass:SanFrancisco, CA.
David Perkins – Play the Whole Game (YouTube video)
Foster T, Batalden P. “New Ways of Working: health professional development for effective coproduction.”International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2021; 33(S2): 6-7. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzab055.
Johnson JK, Batalden P, Foster T, Arvidsson C, Batalden M, Forcino R, Andersson Gäre B. A starter’s guide to learning and teaching how to coproduce healthcare services. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2021; 33(S2):55-63. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/intqIhc/mzab131.