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Article in Scientific American | April 2019

Research reveals strategies for staying motivated in the face of challenges: Emmanuel Manalo, a professor of educational psychology at Kyoto University in Japan and Manu Kapur, a professor of learning sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, put together a special issue of the journal ‘Thinking Skills and Creativity’ last December on benefiting […]

Column of Prof. Manu Kapur in GLOBE 1/2018 of ETH Zurich

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF FAILURE. Good things happen on the other side of failure. It is failure that creates what I call the 4A conditions for deep learning: Activation, Awareness, Affect, and Assembly. When designed well, failure activates the prior knowledge necessary for acquiring new knowledge. Failure makes us aware of the limits of […]