If you have any interest in the neuroscience of how we learn, than you may have already come across the work of Kurt Fischer. Director for the Mind, Brain, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Fischer studies cognitive and emotional development and learning from birth through adulthood, combining analysis of the commonalities across people with the diversity of pathways of learning and development. His work focuses on the organization of behavior and the ways it changes, especially with development, learning, emotion, and culture. I am pretty much fascinated with all of his research. I know he recently published research on Piaget, so if that is of interest to you than you may want to check it out. I think I found it on ResearchGate. What I personally hope to continue studying is aggression and reading comprehension in adolescent readers. There has been some research done, but there is still much to be learned...
PS-If this topic is of interest to you, check out the term 'neuromyths'...I think you will find the research interesting as it applies to K12 education.
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