Main Theme: Developing Potentials for Learning
Developing Potentials can be looked at from different perspectives:
Learning and Cognitive Science
Learning theory, learning disability, learning and neuroscience, metacognition, reasoning, intelligence, discourse-processing, pictorial learning, learning to learn, cognitive skills, individual differences, artificial intelligence, knowledge creation, and creativity.
Teaching and Instructional Design
Teaching methods, instructional strategies, classroom discourse, and social aspects of teaching.
Developmental Aspects of Instruction
Cognitive, social, emotional and moral development, learning and developmental difficulties, tutoring with young children.
Social and Economic Dimensions of Education
Sociological aspects of education, intra-generational transfer of knowledge, socio-economic factors of school achievements, economy of education, educational effectiveness, accountability systems in education.
Motivational and Affective Processes
Motivation, cooperative learning, self-confidence, emotion, affect, test-anxiety, learning styles.
Learning and Instructional Technology
Technology in education and training, distance and on-line learning, computer-supported learning environments, multimedia and hypermedia learning, adapting computer-assisted instruction.
Knowledge Acquisition and Expertise in Specific Domains
Reading, writing, text comprehension and production, second language acquisition, science, mathematics, arts. Conceptual understanding and change, reasoning and problem solving. Curriculum studies.
Higher Education
Student learning in higher education, vocational educational, academic learning, counselling practices. The European Higher Educational Space.
Lifelong Learning and Professional Development
Lifelong education and learning; training and development.
Assessment and Evaluation
Assessment methods, portfolio practice, school-based evaluation, assessment software, assessment of competence, educational attainment, comparative evaluations, large-scale national and international assessment projects.
Teaching and Teacher Education
Teacher thinking, teacher education.
European Integration and Learning
Educational research in a European Research Area, organization of educational research, the role of research on learning and instruction in developing education systems, research cooperation frameworks, training of young researchers.
Learning and Special Education
Learning disabilities, remedial education, mainstreaming, integrated learning.
Learning and Social Interaction
Learning processes in classrooms, social aspects of learning, classroom video studies, learning otuside school settings, multiculturality, social interaction, peer interaction, parental involvement in learning.
