Glossary

Learning strategies: The learning strategies refer to the methods that are useful for students to learn and/or acquire knowledge. These may involve the student’s learning or the educator’s teaching.
The learning strategies are employed by students to help them gain, understand and internalize information or knowledge. For example, the reading strategies help students to recognize what a word is, to comprehend what they are reading, to be aware of the structure of a text and also to acquire new vocabulary.

Multiple intelligences: Howard Gardner defines intelligence as “the capacity to solve problems or elaborate products that are valuable in one or more cultures”. With this definition, Gardner widens the field of what the intelligence is and recognizes that academic brightness is not everything. For example, two people may be intelligent but in different fields. Gardner defines intelligence as a capacity, and by doing this, Gardner makes it a skill to be developed. It is true that every person is born with a potential marked by genetics, but that potential will be developed in different ways, depending of the environment, the experiences, education, etc. So far, Howard Gardner and his team have identified 7 different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences.

Learning to learn: Learning to learn is a process that establishes and monitors the learning processes and the outcomes required to facilitate lifelong learning. The Education Council of the European Parliament states that ‘Learning to learn’ is the ability to pursue and persist in learning, to organise one’s own learning, including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups.

One of the basic skills to success in the society of knowledge is the ability to learn. Learning to learn includes the awareness of one’s learning process; it means gaining, processing and assimilating new knowledge and skills according to your own capacities to storage this new information properly and permanently.