What We Do & Don't Know about Learning

February 22, 2021 Jeremiah Hendren

What We Do & Don't Know about Learning

Gardner, Howard
Daedalus 133, no. 1 (2004): 5-12
https://doi.org/10.1162/001152604772746648

Suppose that we were commissioned to create a museum of learning. I don’t mean a stuffy, hands-off collection of old manuscripts or films, but rather a state-of-the-art exploratorium that displayed the full spectrum of learning types and, in vivid form, everything that is known about learning. Suppose, further, that we had a budget for consultants and were able to hire the seven experts whose essays are collected here. Presumably we would have in mind a number of guiding questions, among them: What examples of learning should we include? How should we conceptualize this enterprise? What progress has taken place in our understanding of learning in the last century or so, and how can these revolutionary insights inform the education of future generations? Finally, what puzzles remain?

Howard Gardner

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