Implications for Education of an Integrative Synthesis of Research on Human Learning and Development
About This Project
This project aims to foster a deeper understanding of the complex, dynamic processes of human learning and development (HLD). The project aims to achieve the following objectives:
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Complexity
Integrate the approaches to complexity that are converging across multiple disciplines to contribute a synthesis that does justice to the interdisciplinary findings underlining complexity of human learning and development across contexts.
Interdisciplinary Community of Practice
Develop an interdisciplinary community of practice that will deepen the understanding of how learning and development can be understood in ways that incorporate the embeddedness of learning and development in the ecologies of people’s lives, with special attention to children and young people.
Multimedia Cases
Create multimedia cases to aid in understanding the complex embeddedness of learning and development in the contexts of the lives of children, youth, their families and communities, among academics, educational leaders, practitioners and public audiences alike.
STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- Megan Bang (Co-chair)
Northwestern University - Carol Lee (Co-chair)
Northwestern University - Barbara Rogoff (Co-chair)
University of California, Santa Cruz - Natalie Davis
University of Michigan - Cati de los Rios
University of California, Berkeley - Ezekiel Dixon-Román
Columbia University
- Kris Gutiérrez
University of California, Berkeley - Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang
University of Southern California - Richard Lerner
Tufts University - Joshua Sparrow
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School - Amanda Tachine
University of Oregon
CONTACT
Amy Berman, Deputy Director
Hannah Ingersoll, Senior Program Officer
The project and research is supported by funding from the Spencer Foundation. The opinions expressed are those of the NAEd and do not represent views of the Spencer Foundation.