The Science of Learning

Hanjiang Wen was born in 1924 and graduated from Zhejiang University in 1947. Professor Wen is a renowned educator in China. He has served as the principal of Beijing No. 35 High School, Beijing No. 4 High School, Beijing No. 8 High School, President and honorary Professor of Beijing Institute of Education. He has successively presided over a number of national and provincial educational research projects, edited the series of “Brain Science • Thinking • Education” with nearly 4 million words, and published more than 60 academic papers. His masterpiece The Science of Learning (volumes I and II) earned the prestigious Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Achievement Award in 2019. Over the past 30 years, based on the results of brain science research and his profound educational theories and rich practical experience in education, he has proceeded from the problems existing in basic education in China, continued to carry out research on the application of brain science in education with imaginal thinking as the breakthrough point, and formed a complete theoretical system of “the science of learning,” which has made significant contributions to the construction and improvement of the theory of learning and thinking and the promotion of the development of basic education in China.

Chapter 1. The Comprehensiveness of Thinking.- Chapter 2. The Comprehensiveness of Thinking and the All-round Development of HumanBeings.- Chapter 4. Modern Educational Media——A Carrier of Coordinated Development of Thinking.- Chapter 5. Thinking and Memory.- Chapter 6. Thinking and Learning Transfer.- Chapter 7. Learning and Human Development.- Chapter 8. Sustainable Development of Thinking and Learning：Resolving Difficulties in Learning.- Chapter 9. Subjectivity of Learning.