Chapter 1 The Nature of the Discipline

What: Our vision is to bring together three previously distinct disciplines [education, psychology and neuroscience] – to focus on a specific common problem: how to promote better learning. This will mean building a new scientific community and a new discipline, educational neuroscience. Why: We now understand better how learning organizes and reorganizes the brain, but there is very little research so far that has had an impact on educational delivery. What is lacking is a body of researchers who are expert in education, psychology, and neuroscience, and to create these researchers is a primary aim of the project. Introduction