Kurt Fischer, Mind Brain and Learning

[Robins]

Kurt Fischer
Charles Bigelow Professor of Education
Director, Mind, Brain, and Education Program

• Larsen 702
• kurt_f...@gse.harvard.edu
• http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=kurt_fischer
• Phone: 617-495-3446
• Fax: 617-495-3626
• Staff Contact: Jonathan Whichard

Profile
Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from
birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities
across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and
development. His work focuses on the organization of behavior and the
ways it changes, especially with development, learning, emotion, and
culture. In dynamic skill theory, he provides a single framework to
analyze how organismic and environmental factors contribute to the
rich variety of developmental change and learning across and within
people. His research includes students’ learning and problem solving,
brain development, concepts of self in relationships, cultural
contributions to social-cognitive development, early reading skills,
emotions, child abuse, and brain development. One product of his
research is a single scale for measuring learning, teaching, and
curriculum across domains, which is being used to assess and
coordinate key aspects of pedagogy and assessment in schools. Fischer
has been visiting professor or visiting scholar at University of
Geneva (Switzerland), University of Pennsylvania, University of
Groningen (Netherlands), Nanjing Normal University (China), and the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford). He is
the author of “Dynamic Development of Action, Thought, and Emotion” in
the Handbook of Child Psychology (Volume 1), Human Behavior and the
Developing Brain, Mind, Brain, and Education in Reading Disorders, and
a dozen other books, as well as over 200 scientific articles. Leading
an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to
education, he is founding president of the International Mind, Brain,
and Education Society and founding editor of the new journal Mind,
Brain, and Education. Degrees Ph.D., Harvard University
Courses Taught
• H-156 Doctoral Research Practicum: Models and Methods for Learning
and Emotional Development (not offered in 2010-2011)
• HT-100A Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain: Theory
and Practice (Fall 2010)
• HT-100B Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain: Issues
and Cases in Mind, Brain, and Education (Spring 2011)

[Newry]

Hi guys welcome i think that we should focus on maybe no more than
four of Mr. Fischer's areas of intrest and show supporting as well as
conflicting points. Lets use the group as a primary means of
comparrison then when we meet the discussions will be more productive.

On Sep 15, 3:01 pm, Robins <robinsdorot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kurt Fischer
> Charles Bigelow Professor of Education
> Director, Mind, Brain, and Education Program
>
> •     Larsen 702

> •     kurt_fisc...@gse.harvard.edu