Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life - yet we still know very little about how to build useful capacities. This book investigates nine research projects, exploring why particular capacities are successful in some situations but not in others.

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Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Andy Davies is Research Supervisor for the Simulation Department at the Sidra Medical and Research Centre in Doha, Qatar. Linda De George-Walker is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Central Queensland University, Australia. Janice K. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Arts Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Karl J. Matthews is a Researcher at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Warren Midgley is Head of the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Catherine H. Arden is Lecturer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training/Senior Schooling at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Margaret Baguley is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.