Seminar, four hours. Education typically refers to explicit efforts by experienced members of society to instruct new members in acceptable ways of thinking and acting in that society. Study of how learning sciences--broadly, social sciences interested in study of learning, with particular focus on variants of psychology--attempt to explain human cognitive development, and how people learn to think and act. Investigation of how accounts of learning and development can be, and have been, used to inform instruction in school. Focus on schools primarily as means to examine how theoretical perspectives on learning can inform praxis and scholarship or educational justice and equity. Letter grading.