Mind, Brain, and Education

Director's Message

From Kurt Fischer, Mind, Brain, and Education program director:

The Mind, Brain, and Education Program's (MBE) broadest mission is to create a new field of mind, brain, and education, with educators and researchers who expertly join biology, cognitive science, and education. The immediate mission is to train students in this new field both (a) to return to schools and other educational settings where they can use this new knowledge in educational practice and (b) to become researchers with deep knowledge of both biological/cognitive science and education who can therefore create a research base grounded in this new union of knowledge. The immediate target audience is students and teachers with background in one of these fields who want to join biology, cognitive science, and education. The broad target audience is educators, school personnel, and researchers in general, who need to know how to integrate the new biology and cognitive science into education and to base educational practice on relevant research.