Recording of the webinar is available here

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Webinar Speakers

Howard Gardner (Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education @Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a leading thinker on education and human development; he has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics. He has received honorary degrees from thirty-one colleges and universities, including institutions in Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South Korea, and Spain. A MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1981, he is the winner of the 1990 Grawmeyer Award in Education, 2011 Asturias Prize in Social Science, the 2015 Brock International Prize in Education, and the 2021 AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.
With Wendy Fischman, Gardner has recently completed a national study of higher education. A book on the study, The Real World of College, was published in March, 2022 by MIT Press.

Wendy Fischman (Researcher and Project Zero Director @Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Wendy Fischman joined Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995. Since then, she has managed various aspects of the Good Project, a collection of research initiatives focused on the meaning of work in the lives of young children, adolescents, and novice professionals. With Howard Gardner, she has just completed a large-scale national study of higher education in the United States. Their book, The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be is just published (MIT Press, 2022). Over the years, Wendy has written about education and human development in several scholarly and popular articles. She is also the lead author of and Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work (Harvard University Press, 2004). She and her husband Ben have four children. She has a BA from Northwestern University.

Moderated by Dr Manja Klemenčič, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University