‘The Expert Learner’ by Gordon Stobart

Gordon Stobart is Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University of London and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University.He spoke recenlty at an Education Seminar organised by the Irish School Heads Association.

Before moving to the Institute of Education, Stobart worked as a secondary school teacher and an educational psychologist. He then spent twenty years as a senior researcher in policy-related environments.

Much of his recent assessment work has, as a founder member of the Assessment Reform Group, involved promoting formative assessment as part of improving teaching and learning.

His current work is on how experts learn and the implications for classroom teaching and learning. His most recent book is The Expert Learner – challenging the myth of ability (2014, OUP/ McGraw-Hill).

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'The Expert Learner looks at what we know about acquiring expertise and seeks to apply it to education, particularly to classroom teaching'

Of The Expert Learner Professor Mary James of Cambridge University wrote ‘If I were to recommend just one book that all teachers, parents, employers and politicians who are interested in education should read, it would be this one.