Birth, Growth, and Future Issue in Learning Sciences:

Abstract

This paper reviews the birth, growth, and future issue in learning sciences, an ever-growing discipline of human learning research. The first part summarizes its birth and growth from the early 1990s to 2010s as capturing the complexity and diversity of both student learning and teachers’ visions and assessments of that learning. The middle part illustrates how the learning sciences has adapted to such complexity and diversity by introducing a transition of its methodology from a packaging approach of design-based research to a vision-presenting approach of design-based research or design-based implementation research. The final part identifies a future issue of how to create a new academic area of sciences of practice that empowers every practitioner to build hypotheses of how children learn, test them in her or his practice, and deepen the understanding of the complexity and diversity.