国际学习科学年会（ICLS2012）于 2012年7月2日-6日在澳大利亚悉尼召开（http://www.isls.org/icls2012 ），本次会议的主题是学习的未来（The Future of Learning）。在本次会议上，作为国际学习科学学会会员委员会的成员之一，我院张宝辉教授参加了由该委员会组织的“联结全世界学习科学社群”（Linking Learning Sciences Communities across the World） 专题讨论，这一专题讨论旨在扩大学习科学在全球的影响。在讨论会上，张宝辉教授进行了名为《中国学习科学相关的学术社群》（Learning Sciences Oriented Research Communities in China）的报告，其内容是基于张宝辉教授和他在南京大学团队的同事们近期的工作成果。在悉尼会议期间，张宝辉教授还同学习科学领域的一些学者进行了个别交流和沟通。ICLS2012 会议期间，他还应邀参与了NAPLES  （ISLS Network of Academic Programs in the Learning Sciences）工作小组的一些工作。这个小组的目标是在全球建立学习科学博士点联盟以加强合作与学习科学的人才培养。 参加这次国际会议的300多名代表分别来自30多个国家和地区，张宝辉教授是来自中国大陆的唯一代表，他的澳大利亚之行得到了香港王宽诚教育基金会的资助。

张宝辉教授的更多介绍可以参看：http://edu.nju.edu.cn/zbh/

张宝辉教授的报告摘要如下：

The panelist will present the preliminary findings from a study conducted in Mainland China by him and his colleagues to identify the key Learning Sciences related organizations, communities, and research agendas being pursued in China. In addition to conducting a comprehensive literature review of learning sciences related publications, empirical data have also been collected using email surveys, phone interviews and face-to-face semi-structured interviews. The study finds that while there are a number of research communities that conduct research on learning, such as the communities of science educators and educational psychology researchers, there is an active academic community that also refers to its field of study as “learning sciences”. This community started around 1986 and has its own research conferences and publication venues. This community does engage in academic exchange with international scholars, but has evolved separately and independently from the mainstream ISLS community. This presentation will highlight the research foci, as well as dominant theoretical and methodological orientations adopted by members of this learning sciences community in Mainland China. Possibilities and implications for building links between this Chinese learning sciences community and ISLS will also be discussed.