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Marc Schwartz, Ph.D.
Professor of Mind, Brain, Education, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington
Marc Schwartz is Professor of Mind, Brain and Education at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). At UTA he is currently working on developing the new Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education. The Center seeks to identify and support promising research agendas at the intersection of mind, brain and education. It invites individuals interested in how advances in neuroscience, genetics and cognitive science can inform educational practice and leadership. The Center seeks to increase collaboration between researchers, practitioners, and policy makers by offering a forum where ideas are welcomed and, at the same time, critically and rigorously examined with the tools and models emerging at the interface of education, cognitive science, and neurosciences.
Professor Schwartz is a charter member of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES), and currently serves as its vice president. The mission of IMBES is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in biology, education and the cognitive and developmental sciences. In 2007 he organized and chaired the Society’s first international conferences in Fort Worth, Texas hosting over 200 researchers, practitioners, and policy makers from 15 countries.
Dr. Schwartz is also an Associate Researcher in the Science Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). His research at the CfA focuses on how the dynamic enterprise of learning and teaching unfold in physics, chemistry, and biology education. Here the challenges of coordinating complex ideas provide a rich context for exploring the difficulties that students and teachers face in understanding scientific concepts and the additional challenge that teachers face in helping students to construct these ideas so that they can take on personal meaning.
