Developing Sustaining Authentic Partnership Between MBE Researchers and Local Schools

Abstract

One of the most important goals of Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) researchers is bridging the connection between science and educational practice. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel authentic partnership model based on the analyses of demands, capacities, and responsibilities of both researchers and local schools. The Peiyuan Project in Beijing is introduced as an example to demonstrate the model. We argue that more discussions should be encouraged along this practical direction. More successful models and practices should be shared and learned to facilitate wider adoptions and further achievement of the MBE community.One of the most important goals of Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) researchers is bridging the connection between science and educational practice (Stafford-Brizard, Cantor, & Rose, 2017). To achieve this goal, bidirectional interactions have been creatively conducted and theoretically summarized by the MBE community (e.g., Stafford-Brizard et al., 2017). One heated discussion that has drawn increasingly more attention in recent years is the return to the real context where education occurs to find evidence complementing the findings from well-controlled laboratory experiments. The development of wearable devices offers the opportunity by equipping scientists with handy devices with an acceptable degree of accuracy. Technically speaking,

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