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How People Learn
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How People Learn

Designing Education and Training that Works to Improve Performance

Nick Shackleton-Jones
Kogan Page, 2023
First Edition: Great Britain and the United States, 2019

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Visionary

Recommendation

Nick Shackleton-Jones provides a searing indictment of education in schools, colleges and organizations. He defines their problems, then offers a sensible solution: Design education and training that addresses learners’ cares and concerns. He calls for replacing current academic and corporate educational systems with resources and experiences with designs that meet learners’ priorities. Shackleton-Jones describes his “Affective Context Model” as the first unified learning theory, the only theory prioritizing emotions as the root of learning. While his approach contains many practical ideas, dismissing everything people thought they knew about learning seems extreme.

Take-Aways

  • A learning-focused education system necessitates continual assessment of individual needs and liberty to explore challenges of escalating difficulty.
  • The “Affective Context Model” offers a new, empirically grounded theory of learning.
  • People can share the same experiences and remember different things.

About the Author

Nick Shackleton-Jones is HR Director, Talent & Learning at Deloitte, UK. Previously, he worked for PA Consulting Group, BP, Siemens and the BBC.

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