How the Science of Learning and Development and the Neurosciences Can Inform Re-Envisioning Human Possibility

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Current findings from the science of learning and development and the neurosciences move beyond historically restrictive conceptions and invite new visions of human possibility and the design of learning environments within and across settings and policy supports needed. Connecting to ongoing work in the National Academy of Education, we present and place in historical contexts research documenting learning as entailing cognition, identity, emotions and relationships interacting together to inform instruction and institutional organization to support youth to engage in transcendent thinking; empowering youth to interrogate complex conundrums in the civic domain recruiting conceptual and ethically rooted explanations. To illustrate this complexity we offer video narratives, and invite the audience to examine and discuss their implications for research, practice and policy.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

Presenters

• Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California

• Megan Bang, Northwestern University

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Barbara Rogoff, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Cati V. de los Rios, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Ezekiel J. Dixon-Roman, Teachers College, Columbia University