Nuthall’s highly influential book will make interesting reading for all teachers, especially those keen to understand why techniques that work with one group of pupils may not necessary be successful with other groups.
The hidden lives of learners
Synopsis
Based on Nuthall's 40 years of research on learning and teaching, this book is written for classroom teachers and teachers of teachers. Nuthall set out to reveal the ‘hidden lives of learners’ and discover what pupils actually do in classrooms and how this affects what they learn - or don’t learn.
Nuttall reveals how little teachers - and everyone else – know about this hidden life, and that even in classrooms characterised by the happy buzz that apparently signals pupil engagement, little learning may be taking place. Exploring the three worlds that shape a pupil’s experience of learning - the public world of the teacher, the influential world of their peers, and the pupil’s own private world and experiences – Nuthall sets out an argument for the best ways to help pupils learn, and retain, information.