How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice (Compass Series) - Softcover

National Research Council; Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education; Board On Behavioral, Cognitive, And Sensory Sciences; Committee On Learning Research And Educational Practice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309065364 ISBN 13: 9780309065368

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1999

Synopsis

How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice provides a broad overview of research on learners and learning and on teachers and teaching. It expands on the 1999 National Research Council publication How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, Expanded Edition that analyzed the science of learning in infants, educators, experts, and more. In How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice, the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice asks how the insights from research can be incorporated into classroom practice and suggests a research and development agenda that would inform and stimulate the required change.

The committee identifies teachers, or classroom practitioners, as the key to change, while acknowledging that change at the classroom level is significantly impacted by overarching public policies. How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice highlights three key findings about how students gain and retain knowledge and discusses the implications of these findings for teaching and teacher preparation. The highlighted principles of learning are applicable to teacher education and professional development programs as well as to K-12 education. The research-based messages found in this book are clear and directly relevant to classroom practice. It is a useful guide for teachers, administrators, researchers, curriculum specialists, and educational policy makers.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Key Findings
• 3 Responses from the Education and Policy Communities
• 4 Proposing a Research and Development Agenda
• References
• Appendix A: Meeting Participants
• Appendix B: Biographical Sketches

About this title

About the Author

M. Suzanne Donovan, John D. Bransford, and James W. Pellegrino, Editors; Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, National Research Council

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309065364
• ISBN 13: 9780309065368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• Editor: Pellegrino James W., Bransford John D., Donovan M. Suzanne