Category: Psychology of Education Project

This weekend I’ll be heading to Madison, Wisconsin for the NAVSA conference. I’ll be discussing my latest project, which investigates the intersections of literature, science, and education in the nineteenth century. I’ve posted below the abstract of my paper, scheduled for 1:30 on Friday afternoon. ________________________ “Now what I want is Facts,” says Thomas Gradgrind

In the twenty-first century it is fairly common to discuss teaching as the application of psychological principles (as in Susan Ambrose et al.’s How Learning Works [2010]) or even the alteration of neural pathways (as James Zull does in The Art of Changing the Brain [2002]). This research is seen as something rather new: as