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Project Zero is 40! Read about our latest research. Current Research ProjectsThe Artful Thinking program helps students develop thinking dispositions that support thoughtful learning--in the arts, and across school subjects. Currently in use by teachers in grades K-8, the Artful Thinking program is a member of growing international network of K-12 programs, linked by the theme “Visible Thinking." Cultures of Thinking is a collaboration with Bialik College in Melbourne, Australia. The project looks at the process of creating a school-wide culture of thinking that supports the development of students' thinking dispositions. The GoodWork Project is a large-scale study of the beliefs and practices characterizing the lives of professional people. Researchers are examining both the relation between children and adolescents' beliefs and practices and their commitment to an area of work; and adults' beliefs and practices and their ability to perform cutting-edge work. Innovating with Intelligence is an international project that is developing a research-based approach to teaching thinking dispositions. Based partly at Lemshaga Akademi in Sweden, and partly at pilot schools in the US, the program is exploring high-leverage ways to develop students' thinking dispositions in such areas as truth-seeking, understanding, fairness, and imagination. Interdisciplinary Work and the Future of Education is exploring the cognitive, organizational, and pedagogical qualities of interdisciplinary work as it takes place in exemplary expert institutions, collegiate, and pre-collegiate educational programs. L@titud is the Latin American Initiative toward Understanding and Development. The L@titud network gathers professionals to promote educational innovations that support understanding and intelligent action in Latin America. L@titud seeks to promote regional dialogue and support local initiatives that build on conceptual frameworks developed at Project Zero. It also strives to strengthen local expertise through professional development, the production and dissemination of educational materials in Spanish, and research activities. L@titud es una red de profesionales que busca promover innovaciones educativas para el mejoramiento de la comprensión y la acción inteligente en contextos sociales diversos en Latinoamerica. L@titud busca promover el dialogo regional y apoyar iniciativas locales basadas en marcos conceptuales desarrollados por Proyecto Cero. Ademas, L@titud busca generar experticia regional a traves de la difusión de materiales educativos en español, el desarrollo de programas de actualización profesional e investigación. Learning in and from Museum Study Centers: The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and Project Zero are conducting a one-year collaborative research project to investi-gate the nature of visitor learning at HUAM’s two study centers, the Agnes Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and the Study Room of the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) is a small community of business leaders, academics, and organizational researchers collectively exploring themes of leadership, human development and innovation in the workplace. Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners is a three-phase project. The first phase, a collaboration between Project Zero and the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, examined how to document and assess individual and group learning. The second phase explored these ideas with American preschool, elementary, and middle school teachers. In Phase III we are expanding the research and reach of these ideas through a monthly MLV Seminar with American teachers from preschool through high school, the development of MLV institutes at Project Zero, the publication of new materials documenting these ideas in American classrooms, and a partnership with teacher educators. The Qualities of Quality: Excellence in Arts Education and How to Achieve It is a study aiming to synthesize what is currently understood about the critical elements of high quality arts teaching and learning and to identify effective strategies for creating those experiences for school-age youth in diverse settings. ROUNDS at Project Zero provides opportunities for educators to regularly gather together to share their work and discuss professional issues. Studio Thinking Project is a study conducted in two high schools that take the arts seriously. In these schools, teachers are artists, students enter by audition in the visual arts, and students receive a minimum of ten hours per week of visual arts instruction. The project's purpose is to understand instruction in visual arts classes, both the instructors' goals and how instruction is carried out. Understandings of Consequence Project explores how students' limiting assumptions about the nature of causality impact their ability to learn complex science concepts and is helping teachers learn how to address these patterns so that students gain deeper understanding. Visible Thinking is an approach to teaching and learning that emphasizes the use of thinking routines and documentation to make thinking more visible in classrooms. Thinking routines support the development of students as self-directed learners and learning for understanding. Visible Thinking is used as the instructional approach in several projects and the ideas associated with it continue to develop. Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas: Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects Multiple Intelligences Projects |
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