16.013 - How People Learn II: The Science and Practice of Learning. Symposium and Discussion Forum on a New National Research Council Study

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In 1999 the National Research Council first published the report, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, which served as a catalyst for new interdisciplinary research and as a programmatic map for agencies and organizations (e.g., National Science Foundation, private foundations) supporting education research and practice. How People Learn II will update and extend the original report by critically reviewing research that has emerged in the past decade and a half on learning and learning contexts across the lifespan. How People Learn II will focus particular attention on research and research approaches with the greatest potential to influence policy and practice and on cultural differences and similarities in learning. In this open forum symposium, commentators—including members of the NRC committee that produced the original report—will reflect on what has changed or become more apparent since the publication of HPL. Commentators will also look ahead by sharing their aspirations for the next generation of HPL and their ideas about what it should address. Members of the audience will be invited to join the discussion and share their comments. This forum will offer a [rare] and important opportunity for community engagement prior to the launch of an NRC study.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Robert M. Hauser, National Research Council

Participants

• Heidi A. Schweingruber, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

• Sujeeta Bhatt, National Research Council

• Barbara Rogoff, University of California - Santa Cruz

• James W. Pellegrino, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Penelope L. Peterson, Northwestern University

Discussants

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• William R. Penuel, University of Colorado - Boulder