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Emergent Pedagogy, the Brain, Conflict, and Social Dynamics

The Brain and Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry:
A Story of Three Loops, and of Conflict

Paul Grobstein

Inquiry Institute

30 July 2009

Emergent Pedagogy and the Brain: Three Loops

The Brain and Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry:
A Story of Three Loops

Paul Grobstein

Inquiry Institute

21 July 2009

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The Evolutionary Development of the Neocortex and its Implications for Evolutionary Cognition

Submitted by bpyenson on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 9:35pm
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it is understandable for one to overlook the privileged cognitive abilities that he or she bears as a human being in comparison to other species.  In particular, humans, as mammals and apes, are seen as cognitively more advanced than other life forms, such as reptiles, mollusks, and microbes because they can process the greatest amount of information of their social and physical surroundings.
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Science and art, art and science, and .... life

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 1:26pm

My old colleague and friend Eric Raimy posted some interesting thoughts in Facebook recently.   Some excerpts for those who can't get there directly, followed by some thoughts of my own ...

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Thoughts on Obama's "restore science to its rightful place"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 10:40pm

Barack Obama is a serious and committed pragmatist, in the best sense of that word, and I understand his inaugural commitment to "restore science to its rightful place" in exactly those terms. What's important about science is not its certainty about ways to act, but rather its willingness to aggressively acknowledge uncertainty, and so to hold to the fire any presumptions about how to act that derive from any source other than clearly defined and commonly accepted observations to date.

Where Does It All Come From? A Conversation

Benjamin Olshin is assistant professor of Philosophy, History, and History of Science at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Paul Grobstein is professor of Biology at Bryn Mawr College. The two met and discovered common interests, like this one, at a meeting on "Building the Scientific Mind" in Vancouver in May 2007 (for another common interest see Reality and Virtual Reality). Their ongoing exchange is provided here to encourage further conversation. Your thoughts are welcome in the forum area below.

 

Olshin - 30 November 2008

Learning from Asperger's

Learning from "From the Inside":
Being on the Spectrum

Paul Grobstein
December 2008

Excerpts from and comments on Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison (Crown Publishers, 2007)

 

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Mental Health and the Brain: Reflections

Mental Health and the Brain:
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Fall, 2008

 

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