On April 2nd Wiley-Blackwell celebrated the premiere issue of Mind, Brain, and Education with a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts.During the celebration Kurt Fischer (Harvard University), Howard Gardner (Harvard University), Maryanne Wolf (Tufts University), and Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France) discussed their recent findings regarding how brain science informs educational practice. […]
On April 2nd Wiley-Blackwell celebrated the premiere issue of Mind, Brain, and Education with a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts.During the celebration Kurt Fischer (Harvard University), Howard Gardner (Harvard University), Maryanne Wolf (Tufts University), and Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France) discussed their recent findings regarding how brain science informs educational practice.
Now, Wiley-Blackwell offer podcasts of all talks from this site.
Download or play the podcasts
Kurt Fischer, Harvard University:
Mind, Brain, and Education: Analyzing Human Learning and Development
Mp3 file (6.5MB, 9 minutes 20 seconds).
Howard Gardner, Harvard University:
Is There Such a Thing as Brainless Education?
Mp3 file (4.9MB, 6 minutes 58seconds).
Maryanne Wolf, Tufts University:
Dyslexia Intervention: Reading and the Brain
Mp3 file (7.8MB, 11 minutes 6 seconds).
Stanislas Dehaene, Collège de France:
Traveling Along the Number Line: Mathematics and the Brain
Mp3 file (5.4MB, 7 minutes, 44 seconds).
Two of the speakers above have also contributed to the first issue of Mind, Brain, and Education. You can access these articles for free online:
Why Mind, Brain, and Education? Why Now?
Kurt W. Fischer, David B. Daniel, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Elsbeth Stern, Antonio Battro, and Hideaki Koizumi (Editors)
A Few Steps Toward a Science of Mental Life
Stanislas Dehaene
