In its broadest sense, learning can be defined as a process of progressive change from ignorance to knowledge, from inability to competence, and from indifference to understanding.
Innovations and Anxieties
Graduate students from around New England and the nation gathered on March 31 for an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Rhode Island entitled, "Innovations and Anxieties," which explores the dynamic negotiations that are possible when thinking about innovations that inspire praise and critique, hope and fear, promise and imbalance, progress and diversion, quietude and combat, tranquility and anxiety.