- Who We Are
- Topics
- By Subject Area
- dummy
- By Level
- Projects
- Projects Column 1
- Agency by Design
- Aligned Programs for the 21st Century
- Artful Thinking
- Arts as Civic Commons
- Causal Learning Projects
- Children Are Citizens
- Creando Comunidades de Indagación (Creating Communities of Inquiry)
- Creating Communities of Innovation
- Cultures of Thinking
- Early Childhood in the Making, an initiative of Agency by Design
- EcoLEARN Projects
- Educating with Digital Dilemmas
- Projects Column 2
- Global Children
- Higher Education in the 21st Century
- Humanities and the Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)
- Idea Into Action
- Inspiring Agents of Change
- Interdisciplinary & Global Studies
- Investigating Impacts of Educational Experiences
- Leading Learning that Matters
- Learning Innovations Laboratory
- Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn
- Making Across the Curriculum, an initiative of Agency by Design
- Making Learning and Thinking Visible in Italian Secondary Schools
- Projects Column 3
- Making Learning Visible
- Multiple Intelligences
- Out of Eden Learn
- Pedagogy of Play
- Re-imagining Migration
- ROUNDS
- Signature Pedagogies in Global Education
- Talking With Artists Who Teach
- Teaching for Understanding
- The Family Dinner Project
- The Good Project
- The Studio Thinking Project
- The World in DC
- Visible Thinking
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- Projects Column 1
- Resources
- Professional Development
Ellen Winner
- Principal Investigator
Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults. She is the author of over 100 articles and three books--Invented Worlds: The Psychology of the Arts (1982), The Point of Words: Children's Understanding of Metaphor and Irony (1988), and Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (1996)—and co-author of Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2007), Studio Thinking 2: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education (2013). Soon to appear: Studio Thinking from the Start: The K-8 Art Educator's Handbook, and How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration. She has served as President of APA's Division 10, Psychology and the Arts in 1995-1996, and received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000. She is a fellow of APA Division 10 and of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
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