Learning how learning happens: creativity, practice design, Cruyff

Send us Fan MailAre your training sessions giving the players the best learning? Is your coaching allowing them to become more creative?Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick are leading experts in the learning world. In their latest book, How Learning Happens, they introduce us to 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably.Using Paul and Carl's expertise, we translate their findings into sporting contexts.Here are some of the many areas we cover:The difference between playing and learningHow the coach can intervene in play to enhance learningThe inefficiency of discovery learningWhat's too much coachingHow spaced practice can accelerate learningThe key differences for learning between the classroom and the training groundWhat does "expressing yourself" really mean - and where it can go wrongWhy we might have to suppress fun and playfulness at timesMotivation and success - the mythWhy you should be thinking more about your retrieval practicesWhy schools don't kill creativity and what lessons you can learn from thatTop tips on practice designLearning why what you do works, so can keep doing it, or change to doing something elseHow Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice is out now (4th March 2020). Click here to order.And as a special offer to our listeners, you get a 20% discount if you apply this code: BSE20Paul A. Kirschner is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands as well as Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Belgium.Carl Hendrick teaches at Wellington College, UK, and holds a PhD in Education from King’s College London.To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!