Who is Guy Claxton?

Guy’s new book, with Bill Lucas, published 2010 by Open University Press

“An intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students develop it”
David Perkins, Harvard University

Since September 2008, Guy Claxton has been Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning (CrL), and Professor of the Learning Sciences, at the University of Winchester.  He previously held the same title at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education.  He has a ‘double first’ from Cambridge and a DPhil from Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences.  His books have been translated into many languages including Japanese, Greek, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

Guy Claxton is

• Originator of the educational Building Learning Power programme: helping young people become better real-life learners
• Author (amongst other things) of
• New Kinds of Smart (written with Bill Lucas, Open University Press 2010)
• What’s the Point of School? Rediscovering the Heart of Education (Oneworld 2008)
• Creativity, Wisdom and Trusteeship: The Role of Education (edited with Howard Gardner and Anna Craft, Corwin Press 2007)
• The Creative Thinking Plan (with Bill Lucas, BBC Books 2007)
• The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious (Little Brown 2005, Abacus 2006)
• Building Learning Power: Helping Young People Become Better Learners (www.buildinglearningpower.co.uk, 2002)
• Wise Up: Learning to Live the Learning Life (Bloomsbury 1999, Network Continuum 2000)
• Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (Fourth Estate 1997, HarperPerennial 1999)
• The Heart of Buddhism (HarperCollins, 2002)
• Consultant on learning and creativity to
• New Zealand Ministry of Education
• South Australian Ministry of Education
• HM Treasury
• The Football Association
• The Royal Albert Hall
• Worldwide speaker on creativity, learning and the brain, recently lecturing in Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Brazil, USA, Sweden, Germany, Spain, and Ireland, as well as throughout the UK
• Amongst his international engagements, Guy will be speaking in New Zealand (November 2010), Australia (March 2011) and Chile and Argentina (April 2012)