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Productive Failure
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Productive Failure

Principles for Developing Talent for the Future

Manu Kapur
Diplomatic Courier, 2018
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Conventional wisdom paints failure as something to avoid. However, learning scientist Manu Kapur argues that the right kind of failure is useful, even critical, to learning. Kapur’s perspectives will pique the interest of anyone who is responsible for designing rich educational experiences or who is keen to learn new pedagogical techniques.

Take-Aways

  • Learning scientist Manu Kapur believes four principles should guide thinking about learning. First, experts’ honed eyes discern details that novices can’t yet perceive. Thus, experts’ job isn’t to teach but to prepare neophytes to see.
  • Second, formal education places too much emphasis on learning prior to doing. Learning-by-doing is a much more effective paradigm for knowledge transfer.
  • Third, too much instruction impedes creativity. Students must frame knowledge as a “conceptual toy” that they can play with and manipulate.

About the Speaker

Manu Kaper is a professor of learning sciences and higher education at ETH Zurich.

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