Learning to Learn Phase 3
Project Findings

Minister of State for Schools, Jim Knight MP, joined us on Monday 21 May, to launch the findings from the latest phase (phase 3) of our Learning to Learn in Schools project. This latest report is from a seven year research project exploring the effect of learning to learn approaches on pupils' attainment and attitudes to learning in primary and secondary schools through teacher-led action research and enquiry.

The findings presented showed first time evidence that children as young as four and five years old can understand how they learn. This demonstrates the capability of very young children to learn how to learn: they can talk about their thinking and about their own learning while actively choosing learning techniques to match learning contexts. It goes further than findings from international research, which suggests this more usually occurs only in older learners of secondary school age.

These latest findings from the project provide more weight to arguments made by the Campaign and other leading educational thinkers that equipping children with the ability to understand their own learning is the best way for schools to create successful learners of the future. Joint Chief Executive, Tricia Hartley, said, "The Campaign believes that this new evidence strongly supports our bid to get the techniques that the schools taking part in our research project are using more widely recognised and embedded in everyday practice. We want to help schools develop confident lifelong learners who are ready to learn anything and have the flexibility and skills they will need to face the challenges of the twenty-first century."

To view the research report click here for the executive summary and click here for the full research report. For those interested in what the schools actually did, their case studies can be found by clicking here. All these documents can also be viewd by visiting www.campaignforlearning.org.uk

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