The Power of Mindful Learning
The Power of Mindful Learning
In this book, The Power of Mindful Learning, author Ellen Langer conveys the theory of mindful learning and its implications for education, wherever it takes place - like in school, on the job, in the home and it clearly expresses in nonacademic manner.
Mindful learning involves "openness to novelty; alertness to distinction; sensitivity to different contexts; implicit, if not explicit, awareness of multiple perspectives; and orientation in the present."
Certain myths and fairy tales help advance a culture by passing on a profound and complex wisdom to succeeding generations. Others, however, deserve to be questioned. This book is about seven pervasive myths, or mindsets, that undermine the process of learning and how we can avoid their debilitating effects in a wide variety of settings. The book states the myths of conventional learning:
The basics must be learned so well that they become second nature.
Paying attention means staying focused on one thing at a time.
Delaying gratification is important.
Rote memorization is necessary in education.
Forgetting is a problem.
Intelligence is to know "what's out there."
There are right and wrong answers.
"A mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics:
The continuous creation of new categories,
Openness to new information, and
An implicit awareness of more than one perspective.
The concept of mindfulness revolves around certain psychological states that are really different versions of the same thing:
1. Openness to the novelty
2. Alertness to distinction
3. Sensitivity to different contexts
4. Implicit if not explicit awareness of multiple perspectives
5. Orientation in the present
Author talks about different strategies to achieve the mindfulness:
Overlearned skills:
The way information is learned will determine how, why and where it is used.
Most of us are not taught our skills, whether academic, athletic or artistic, by real experts. The rules we are given to
In this book, The Power of Mindful Learning, author Ellen Langer conveys the theory of mindful learning and its implications for education, wherever it takes place - like in school, on the job, in the home and it clearly expresses in nonacademic manner.
Mindful learning involves "openness to novelty; alertness to distinction; sensitivity to different contexts; implicit, if not explicit, awareness of multiple perspectives; and orientation in the present."
Certain myths and fairy tales help advance a culture by passing on a profound and complex wisdom to succeeding generations. Others, however, deserve to be questioned. This book is about seven pervasive myths, or mindsets, that undermine the process of learning and how we can avoid their debilitating effects in a wide variety of settings. The book states the myths of conventional learning:
The basics must be learned so well that they become second nature.
Paying attention means staying focused on one thing at a time.
Delaying gratification is important.
Rote memorization is necessary in education.
Forgetting is a problem.
Intelligence is to know "what's out there."
There are right and wrong answers.
"A mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics:
The continuous creation of new categories,
Openness to new information, and
An implicit awareness of more than one perspective.
The concept of mindfulness revolves around certain psychological states that are really different versions of the same thing:
1. Openness to the novelty
2. Alertness to distinction
3. Sensitivity to different contexts
4. Implicit if not explicit awareness of multiple perspectives
5. Orientation in the present
Author talks about different strategies to achieve the mindfulness:
Overlearned skills:
The way information is learned will determine how, why and where it is used.
Most of us are not taught our skills, whether academic, athletic or artistic, by real experts. The rules we are given to