Listen to Free Chapters from Learnership

What does it take to prepare students for a future where the only constant is change?

In these free audio chapters from Learnership, I invite you to rethink education’s most important question: not just how well we teach, but how well students learn.

• In Chapters 1 & 2, I introduce the urgent need for learner agency—ensuring young people become masters of their circumstances, not victims. I explain why our overemphasis on teaching has unintentionally created passive learners, and how shifting the focus to skilful learning is essential if students are to thrive in school and beyond.

• In Chapter 14, I take you into the heart of my framework: the Learnership Matrix. Here I describe the six levels of Learnership, from Non-Learner through to Agile Learner, and show you what skilful learning actually looks like in action. This is the roadmap for helping students move beyond doing their best to getting better—equipping them with the mindset, habits, and resilience to meet life’s challenges.

These chapters will give you a powerful glimpse into a new educational paradigm—one that raises the status of learning from an act to an art.

If they spark your thinking, the full audiobook goes much deeper, giving you practical strategies to transform your school culture and help every student become a skilful, agile learner.

Start listening today—and then take the next step with the complete audiobook.

Learnership

Raising the status of learning from an act to an art

Audio Book

James Anderson
Best Selling Author | Certified Speaking Professional | Educator

Sample Chapters

Jay McTigh

Educational author and consultant
Co-author of the Understanding by Design® framework

Veteran educator, James Anderson, makes the case for cultivating student agency and empowering life-long learners. His thought-provoking book offers not only an optimistic and inspiring vision of possibilities but provides leaders with a detailed manual for transforming their schools to embrace a culture of learnership.

Art Costa and Bena Kallick

Co-Founders of Institute for Habits of Mind

James Anderson puts students at the center of learning by providing greater clarity and precision about defining how learning evolves from beginning to becoming self-directed as efficacious thinkers. This book illuminates and weaves together skills, attitudes, mindsets, and dispositions all learners need to become more powerfully capable of addressing the complexities and challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Mick Walsh

Best Selling Resilience & Wellbeing Author & Speaker

Learnership is to the art of high quality learning, what “Visible Learning” by John Hattie is to the art of high quality teaching. His new book, “Learnership”, disrupts the systemic view that teaching makes the difference, clearly and purposefully articulating that developing our students as independent and agile learners, gives them high agency in their worlds to continually create their abilities. James shares that it all starts with cultivating growth orientated mindsets in learners to believe that through unlocking challenges using the intelligent thinking behaviours of Habits of Mind, that they can build pathways to keep improving their current best abilities to enable them to move onto more difficult challenges; as he so aptly calls it, “getting better at getting better.” In “Learnership”, we have the roadmap to create the high quality learners, who can now focus their efforts on making the most of the relentless pursuit of high quality teaching over the last 10 to 15 years. James has now effectively completed the learning equation for us: Growth = High Quality Learning + High Quality Teaching.

Kath Murdoch

International consultant, educator and author of ’The Power of Inquiry’ and ‘Getting Personal with Inquiry Learning

Around the world, there is growing recognition of schools being places that not only meet the demands of a curriculum but also equip young people with the skills and dispositions they need to tackle learning beyond the curriculum. Every educator, regardless of the age group with whom they work, their role or subject area,  has the opportunity. – indeed, I would suggest an obligation,  to help students learn how to learn.  In this insightful and practical book, James Anderson challenges us to shift our focus and consider, much more thoughtfully, what it means to be an agent, empowered learner.  The structure of the book lends itself beautifully to methodical, collaborative professional reading and dialogue,  making it a perfect text for staff across a school to share and discuss. Too many young people (and indeed their teachers) assume learning is something that is done to them at school – rather than by them. This book has the potential to change that misconception and help nurture the kind of agile, creative, competent and confident learners the world so desperately needs.