About Studies in Exceptional Learning and Gifted Education (SELAGE)
The work of the Exceptional Learning Unit is underpinned by an explicit model of learning that focuses on the processes for knowledge enhancement. The model draws from Dr John Munro's work over the years in multiple ways of learning and learning disabilities and the implications for teaching.
The model proposes that successful learning requires the implementation of a sequence of learning interactions that:
- focus the learning activity
- activate a learner's relevant existing knowledge
- involve enhancing the knowledge initially in specific contexts and then abstracting the new knowledge
- linking positive emotions and values with the new knowledge
- identifying the learning strategies or actions that led to knowledge enhancement
- storing the new knowledge in long term memory
- automatising it
- transferring and applying it
- displaying it in assessment contexts
Contact Details
Associate Professor, Dr John Munro
Head of the Unit for Studies in Exceptional Learning and Gifted Education (SELAGE)
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The University of Melbourne
Level 2, Room L.220
100 Leicester St
Parkville, Vic. 3010
Australia
Phone: (+61 3) 8344 0953
Fax: (+61 3) 9347 2468
Email: j.munro@unimelb.edu.au
Fellow/s of the Centre
Ms Brenda Dalheim
Catholic Education Office, Melbourne (CEOM)
and
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The University of Melbourne
Level 2, LW.208
100 Leicester St
Parkville, Vic. 3010
Australia
Phone: (+61 3) 8344 9539
Fax: (+61 3) 9347 2468
Email: b.dalheim@unimelb.edu.au
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