A symposium was held, inviting Dr.Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science and engineering have advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, the learning and teaching of these subjects meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing much more effective…

A symposium was held, inviting Dr.Carl Wieman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Over the past few decades a great deal has been learned about the thinking processes of experts, particularly scientists and engineers, and how learners can most efficiently develop those useful adaptive high-level thinking skills.Most notable is the finding that such skills are developed, not innate, but quite speci…

A symposium was held, inviting Dr. Carl Wyman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Five panelists discussed the present situation and the future of science education in higher education in Japan while answering questions from the audience.