About NewVIc lectures

Each term NewVIc invites a major educational speaker to lead a lecture on a topic that is at the heart of education and the heart of our work. In the autumn we heard from Professor Ann Hodgson on “What counts as an educated 19 year old today?”. Recently for the spring lecture we heard from Demos’ Sonia Sodha on the subject of service learning. Click here to find out more about the spring lecture and see the slides from the event.

NewVIc’s summer lecture is now planned and the details are below. The lecture will take place at NewVIc, Prince Regent Lane, Plaistow, and booking is open. We will send you a confirmation email nearer to the event if you book.  If you have any queries, please contact marketing@newvic.ac.uk

Summer lecture 2010

“What’s the point of education?” Professor Guy Claxton
Tuesday 8 June 2010
4.30 pm - 6.00 pm

Guy Claxton believes that education’s first priority should be to create enthusiastic learners who can thrive in our complicated and dynamic world.

Guy is an internationally acclaimed authority on the development of young people’s learning and creative capacities. He is the author of a dozen well-respected books on the mind, including Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (1997), Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning (1999), and The Wayward Mind (2005). His bestseller, What’s the Point of School?, has been highly praised by Professor Howard Gardner, Sir Ken Robinson and Baroness Susan Greenfield. A new book, New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education, written jointly with Bill Lucas will be published in April 2010. His Building Learning Power approach to creating learning cultures in schools and colleges has influenced youngsters’ lives throughout the UK as well as in Singapore, Sweden, Dubai, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.

Guy holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He has been Associate Director for Learning at the UK’s Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. He is currently Professor of the Learning Sciences and Co Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester.

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