Professor Guy Claxton

Research summary

Learning to learn; Effects of organisational culture on the development of learning dispositions; Unconscious mental processes, incubation and creativity; Emotions, neuroscience and learning; Spirituality and education

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Biography

Guy Claxton is Visiting Professor of Learning Science and Director of Development of the research initiative on Culture and Learning in Organisations (CLIO), at the Graduate School of Education.

Professor Claxton is also an internationally renowned writer, consultant and academic specialising in creativity, education and the mind.  He has a double first in Natural Science from Cambridge, a doctorate in cognitive psycholgy from Oxford and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

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Selected publications

• Claxton, G 2007, ‘Expanding young peoples capacity to learn’. British Journal of Educational Studies, vol 55 (2)., pp. 115 - 134
• Claxton, G 2006, ‘Thinking at the edge: developing soft creativity’. Cambridge Journal of Education, vol 36 (3)., pp. 351 - 362

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