No. 28 (15): Cognition, learning, and education. November 2023-February 2024

How do human beings learn? Which mechanisms within the human mind make it possible for us to acquire behaviors, knowledge, attitudes, even cognitive biases? How does what we learn modify our cognitive features? What role does formal education play in cognition? How can we turn developments in sciences related to the human mind and the human brain into strategies that favor learning? 

The developments in technology that we have witnessed since the last century have had a strong impact on education, as have findings in other disciplines – such as neuroscience – that were not linked directly at first to the field of education. Nevertheless, we now observe a growing interest among researchers in education to understand the human mind and the learner’s brain, whether this learning is part of the schooling process like reading, writing and mathematics, or it is learning required for social coexistence and emotional wellbeing, whose impact goes beyond the realm of the school. Thus, through interdisciplinary dialogue, research is enriching the study of the educational phenomenon and broadening its possibilities to understand, intervene, and transform society.

In this Issue 28 of Diálogos sobre Educación. Temas actuales en investigación educativa we would like to present research findings, theoretical insights, or essays that address the links between cognitive science, neuroscience, and cultural psychology, with learning in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts, through basic and applied research. 

Coordinators: Teresita de Jesús Montiel Ramos - Universidad de Guadalajara. Gerardo Restrepo – Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.