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Who is Guy Claxton?

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There are at least two Guy Claxtons in the world.  One runs a telecommunications company in Georgia, USA.  This is the other one:

  • Professor of the Learning Sciences at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education in the UK
  • Originator of the educational Building Learning Power programme: helping young people become better real-life learners
  • Author of the bestselling Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less ('THE essential guide to creativity' John Cleese)
  • Consultant and lecturer to the British Defence Academy, The Football Association, The Foyer Foundation, PriceWaterhouseCooper, the Royal Albert Hall and the Treasury
  • Speaker on creativity, intuition and education at international conferences: recently in Stockholm, Munich, Harvard, Singapore, Christchurch and Melbourne
  • Author of the book The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious, published by Little, Brown (2005)
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