Dr James Mannion
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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Um, what I'd like to do is just I I might just read out the first couple of paragraphs 'cause it's really
Like just does a very good job of of sort of of getting the ball rolling in this conversation.
So the title of it is
The affective foundations of human learning
And then the strap line is why what we care about determines learning.
and how to build learning systems that work with biology.
Um and w we you you alluded to the bi the biological realities earlier.
Um
And so and that sort of comes out in this.
So if I may, I'm just gonna quote your own words back at you, but it'll just be a helpful way in.
So it says education and workplace learning continue to face persistent crises, no strangers of these these topics to this podcast, including attention, retention, attendance pardon me, retention and disengagement.
with performance metrics often dis divorced from human developmental needs.
That's something that I just keep t talking about again and again.
There is more to human development than learning about subjects, which is just and then you look at a school timetable, wall to wall subject learning.
Sorry, I I'm elaborating here.
So back to the back of this paragraph.
Despite day decades of cognitive science interventions.
Learning too often remains brittle, I quickly forgotten.
Compliance driven and disconnected from learners' lived experience and values, which we've already heard in both of your introductions.
This crisis persists in part because of a fundamental understanding, and this is really the nub of it.
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