Nat' Academies Press, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition (2000)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/

John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, Rodney R. Cocking, National Academies Press

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This site features an on-line, downloadable version of a book that summarizes recent developments in cognitive learning research. Chapters discusses research in six areas that are relevant to the understanding of students' learning processes: the role of prior knowledge in learning, plasticity and related issues of early experience upon brain development, learning as an active process, learning for understanding, adaptive expertise, and learning as a time-consuming endeavor.

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Subject: Education
Resource Type: Pedagogic Resources:Collection