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Hear hear to Scientist in a Crib. I’d also recommend Vosniadou, S. (2001). How Children Learn, Educational Practices Series, 7, The International Academy of Education (IAE) and the International Bureau of Education (UNESCO).

Available as a PDF at 
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/International/Publications/EducationalPractices/prachome.htm

This is published by the International Bureau of Education in collaboration with the International Academy of Education - a series of booklets describe in simple language ten or twelve universally applicable principles identified by research and scholarship.


Another highly useful overview is How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning 
by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors
 Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council
 National Academy Press, 2000
You can purchase a paper copy of purchase the PDF at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9853.html.

- Kirsten Ellenbogen

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