Going back to Mind, Brain, and Education topic (see the last post), Kurt Fischer is also editor of the Journal Mind, Brain, and Education, and founder president of the IMBES:
The mission of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in all fields that are relevant to connecting mind, brain, and education in research, theory, and/or practice.
The idea:
The connection between education and research should not be one-way. Instead, two-way, reciprocal relationships must be made, where practitioners and researchers work together to formulate research questions and methods that will move both science and teaching forward. This two-way collaboration is the only way that education can benefit from the kind of usable knowledge regularly created in fields like medicine.
The Society has held 2 conferences:
2007 Mind, Brain, and Education: The Nature of Human Learning and How Educational Policy Can Profit from Research. All the presentations are available in pdf. See for instance the presentation of Kurt Fischer
The journal has opened its doors in 2007:
On April 2nd, 2007, Wiley-Blackwell celebrated the premiere issue of Mind, Brain, and Education with a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the celebration Kurt Fischer (Harvard University), Howard Gardner (Harvard University), Maryanne Wolf (Tufts University), and Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France) discussed their recent findings regarding how brain science informs educational practice. Two of the speakers also contributed to the first issue of Mind, Brain, and Education. You can access these articles for free online:
Why Mind, Brain, and Education? Why Now?
Kurt W. Fischer, David B. Daniel, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Elsbeth Stern, Antonio Battro, and Hideaki Koizumi (Editors)
A Few Steps Toward a Science of Mental Life
Stanislas Dehaene