The learning community that constitutes PEEL was founded at one working-class high school in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985 by a group of teachers and academics who shared concerns about the prevalence of passive, unreflective, dependent student learning, even in apparently successful lessons. The project was not funded or driven by any system or institution-level initiative. In our first book (Baird & Mitchell, 1986, p. 12), we listed four goals for the project
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To foster effective, independent learning through training for enhanced metacognition
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To change teacher attitudes and behaviours to ones that promote such learning
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To investigate processes of teacher and student change as participants engage in action research
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To identify factors that influence successful implementation of a programme that aims to improve the quality of students’ learning
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Mitchell, I., Mitchell, J. (2008). The Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL): 22 Years of Praxis. In: Samaras, A.P., Freese, A.R., Kosnik, C., Beck, C. (eds) Learning Communities In Practice. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8788-2_1
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