A Long Lunch with Professor Guy Claxton

Join us for a thought-provoking and inspiring event: A Long Lunch with the UK’s Professor Guy Claxton is an excellent opportunity to engage in-person with an influential voice in the world of education and cognitive learning sciences. We encourage you to attend with your leadership team, to what promises to be a rewarding learning experience for all school leaders.

Professor Claxton will explore the idea of "School as an Epistemic Apprenticeship," a place to nurture young minds by stretching and strengthening their aptitude and appetite for real-life learning. He will share insights from different areas of his latest work, blending elements of the Learning Power Approach (LPA), rethinking education, and addressing the current misrepresentation of the learning sciences in education, all of which enhance BOTH academic achievement AND lifelong learning confidence and competence for our children and young people.

He will also share ideas from his current book )with Emily Poel), Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education, on the importance of cultivating interoception, intuition, imagination, and interthinking as valid ways of knowing. This is not just an academic presentation but a visionary and at times humorous exploration of how best to equip our students for the future.

Curious and want to know more? 

Bring your wonderings and be prepared to stretch your own learning muscles, as we 'interthink' and embrace a cognitive science approach to learning

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to lunch, learn, and lead with the best in education. Secure your place today!

Who is Professor Guy Claxton?

Guy Claxton is a Professor of the Learning Sciences, a Cognitive Scientist by training and writer of over 30 books on psychology and education. His main interest is in expanding human intelligence through research, writing and hands-on education. He holds Fellowships of the British Psychological Society and the Academy of Social Sciences, and took a 'double first' in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and a DPhil in Experimental Psychology from Oxford. He has spent most of his working life based in a variety of UK universities including Oxford, Bristol, UCL London, King’s College London and Winchester. He is currently Emeritus Professor of the Learning Sciences at Winchester’s Centre for Real-World Learning and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Bristol.  

Guy’s work focuses on teaching and researching about real-life as well as academic learning – what it involves and how to make it better. He and his colleagues have found that as people grow up they develop certain habits of mind that either expand or constrain how good they are at learning, and that schools exert a powerful influence not just on what people learn but on how they learn – how they respond to uncertainty and difficulty.

Around 1990, Guy started working directly with schoolteachers to deliberately create cultures in their classrooms that strengthen these so-called ‘positive learning dispositions’ or ‘epistemic strengths’. Out of those collaborations emerged what Guy originally dubbed Building Learning Power, and now, more broadly, refers to as The Learning Power Approach. This work has spawned many books and has had impact in schools around the world.

In addition to his work with schools, Guy has also been a lecturer and consultant to London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the Siobhan Davies Dance School, the London College of Fashion and the English Football Premier League Youth Coaches. He has been an invited speaker at many of the International Conferences on Thinking, the 2022 Edinburgh International Summit on Culture, and the Harvard Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA). In Australia Guy has, over many years, led research and development programmes for the Victorian Independent Schools Association, the Anglican Schools of New South Wales and the South Australian Department of Education.

For more about Professor Guy Claxton’s work on learning to learn in schools, see the Books page on his website https://www.guyclaxton.net/books