The Learning Curve

The committee provides a series of regular articles on teaching and learning that are published in The Ringing World on the first Friday of each month.

The collected articles are available in book form from Central Council Publications:

• The Learning Curve, Volume 1: 1999-2001
• The Learning Curve, Volume 2: 2002-2003
• The Learning Curve, Volume 3: 2004-2005
• The Learning Curve, Volume 4: 2006-2007

By agreement with The Ringing World, more recent articles will be available for download as PDF files from this site, shortly after publication. You are free to use the downloaded articles for training purposes. For details of subscription to The Ringing World, see www.ringingworld.co.uk/products/rw.php

The end of an era

With the December 2007 instalment of The Learning Curve (TLC to its habitués) the series came to an end. John, whatever his faults, is not one for blowing his own trumpet, so EdC Webmaster thought that the following note written by Robert Lewis, Editor of The Ringing World, in the issue of 7 December 2007 would be a fitting conclusion to the series.

This issue contains the final instalment of our monthly educational series The Learning Curve, which has been running now for eight and a half years. May I pay tribute to John Harrison for coordinating the series and writing most of the articles. His contributions have always landed on my desk on time and ready for immediate publication.

It is easy to underestimate the time, effort and dedication that has to go into sustaining a regular feature in The Ringing World, especially one as ambitious as The Learning Curve. John has met that challenge in a most impressive way and we owe him a real debt of gratitude. The end of The Learning Curve does not, of course, mean an end to educational articles in The Ringing World . . . education remains a cornerstone of our mission to the Exercise.