Askwith Forum: Changes in Mind - Five Decades of Insights into Intelligence, Thinking, and Learning

Speakers:

Drew Gilpin Faust, president and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University
James E. Ryan, dean and Charles William Eliot Professor, HGSE
Howard Gardner, co-founder and co-director, Project Zero (1972-2000); Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, HGSE; adjunct professor of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dave Perkins, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Professor of Teaching and Learning, Emeritus, HGSE
Steven Seidel, Ed.M.’89, Ed.D.’95, director, Project Zero (2000-2007); Bauman and Bryant Senior Lecturer on Arts in Education, HGSE
Shari Tishman, Ed.D.’91, director, Project Zero (2007-2014); lecturer on education, HGSE
Daniel Wilson, Ed.M.’94, Ed.D.’07, director, Project Zero (2014-present)

This Askwith Forum will offer insights gleaned from a half-century of iconoclastic investigations into changing conceptions of the mind and the implications of these changes for today’s teachers, schools, and society.

“This is a fantastic opportunity to explore and reflect on how our perceptions of how our minds work have changed over the past fifty years,” said Daniel Wilson, director of Project Zero. "The role of education in today’s complex world requires us to take stock in what we know about the human mind and consider how to best cultivate citizens of tomorrow. We look forward to sharing views on major insights, and discussing implications for educators from current luminary thinkers in our field.”

Project Zero (PZ) is a Harvard Graduate School of Education research center that focuses on learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels. Project Zero will launch its year-long 50th anniversary by hosting this special Askwith Forum as part of HUBweek in Boston.

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