Diving Into Harvard Education - (Paperback)

About the Book

In this collection of twenty interviews, an all-star lineup of interviewees from Harvard and Olin College dive into a wide range of innovative educational ideas and practices, spanning various disciplines and phases of learning.

Book Synopsis

Just as Harvard University is a place "where world-class professors, innovative research, and a dynamic student community come together to advance education and foster change in the world", Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), founded in 1920, grants students and visiting scholars who are determined to "learn to change the world" valuable opportunities to meet great professors and participate in shaping meaningful research.

The book's twenty interviews are organized into five parts: Values and Goals, Development, Media, Student Life and Institutions, and Putting Learning into Practice--Engineering Education. While our team of interviewees consists largely of HGSE professors and administrators, it also includes world-renowned professors and deans from other Harvard schools, as well as an outstanding representative of global engineering education transformation. Each chapter consists of an interviewee profile, editors' note, the interview dialogue itself, references, and notes, so that our dear readers can experience the impact of the interviewees' ideas and reliably trace their sources. While each individual interview is an instructive snapshot of a specific area of educational research and practice, we hope that the collection as a whole will enlighten and inspire each of our readers to do their part to improve the world.

Contributors are: Jane (Chao) Bai, Joseph Blatt, Jack (Jiajie) Chen, Chris Dede, Catherine Elgin, Tracy Elizabeth, Tianyu Fu, Yidan Gao, Hunter Gehlbach, Paul Harris, Helen Haste, Mingzhu He, Thomas Hehir, Siang Huat (Jason Hong), Arthur Kleinman, Charles H. Langmuir, Stephen Lassonde, Harry Lewis, Yinqi Li, Yi (Elaine) Lin, Jed F. Lippard, Richard K. Miller, Siwen Zhang Minero, Samuel Odamah, Robert L. Selman, Nancy Sommers, Justin M. Thomas, Sonia Maria Pereira Vidigal, Lianjiang Wang, Richard Weissbourd, Gary Yu, Haiqin Yu, Ting Zhang, Jing Zhao, Qiuzi Zhou, Songyu Zhu and Julie.

About the Author

Haiqin Yu, Ph.D. (2012), Ocean University of China, was a visiting scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2014 to 2015, and is a senior editor for Journal of University of Jinan (Science and Technology). Her research focuses on general education, engineering education, and reading and writing education.

Justin M. Thomas earned a master's degree in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University in 2014 and a bachelor's degree in Chinese from Georgetown University in 2012. He served in the Peace Corps in China from 2015 to 2017.