Our practical themes
Learning to learn
Directing learning, reflecting on experience, adapting and managing one’s approach, with feedback and support where useful.
One of UnionOfSkills.com’s ten practical themes, not an official EU list. How we organise skills.
Why it matters
These skills address different parts of learning: deciding what to learn and how, reviewing what happened, adjusting to change and managing commitments. Giving and using feedback brings another perspective to improvement. They apply in study, work, volunteering and everyday learning.
Skills in this theme
Learning to learn
Self-directed learning
Identify what needs to be learned and take an active role in planning how to learn it.
Learning to learn
Reflective learning
Review experience or evidence to understand learning and improve future approaches.
Learning to learn
Adaptability
Adjust an approach when circumstances, requirements or information change.
Learning to learn
Self-management
Organise priorities, commitments, time and one’s own approach responsibly.
Learning to learn
Giving & using feedback
Give useful feedback and use feedback received to improve an approach or outcome.
Also connected with this theme
These skills have their main home in another theme, with a further connection here.
Entrepreneurship
Planning & organising
Turn an intention into manageable steps, responsibilities and resources.
Entrepreneurship
Managing uncertainty & risk
Make considered choices when outcomes are uncertain and potential consequences need to be weighed.
Connected themes
Youth relevance
Moving between school, training, work and other commitments can bring unfamiliar tasks and changing expectations. Young people can choose a next learning step, review an experience, adjust a plan, organise commitments or use feedback to improve an approach.