Understanding the Brain: Implications for Education

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Understanding the Brain: Implications for Education
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Bryn Mawr College Center for Science in Society: Learning To Put Theory Into Practice
Bryn Mawr Alumnae Club of New Hampshire/Vermont
15 November 2003

The student (and teacher and ...) as brain

The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside-
.......... Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Education as applied neurobiology

http://serendipstudio.org/bb/brainpsychoanal.html
http://serendipstudio.org/bb
http://serendipstudio.org/local/suminst/bbi03)

Science as "getting it less wrong" ... and common to all

"Science" as story-telling and revising, common to all
Education as story telling and revising

(http://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/imsa/imsatalk.html
http://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/bridges/3dstory.html
http://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/truth.html
http://serendipstudio.org/~pgrobste/pragmatism.html
http://serendipstudio.org/biology/b103/f01/science.html
http://serendipstudio.org/local/suminst/eei01/pginquiry)

The brain: from a "reflex machine" to a semi-autonomous, evolving, creative agent

(http://serendipstudio.org/bb/neuro/neuro03
http://serendipstudio.org/local/suminst/bbi03b)
http://serendipstudio.org/bb/reflections/upa/)

Part of a new perspective: the inside/outside/inside loop
(http://serendipstudio.org/sci_edu/brainedparallels.html)

Evidence for the creative, bipartite brain

(http://serendipstudio.org/bb/blindspot1.html)

(http://serendipstudio.org/bb/freewill1.html)

The inside loop (conscious/unconscious, I-function/tacit, metaphorical/metonymic)

http://serendipstudio.org/~pgrobste/artscience/
http://serendipstudio.org/bb/ambigfig

Thinking About Education in Terms of the Brain

Brains are fundamentally scientist/explorers

Brains are inherently different from one another

http://serendipstudio.org/gen_beh/diversity.html
http://serendipstudio.org/local/scisoc/mindbody/mood.html

Brains evolve/explore by "looping" interacting within themselves, with the world, and with each other

http://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/csem/f01/CsemTalk.html
http://serendipstudio.org/bb/reflections/upa/UPApaper.html

What brains need is adequate space to explore and encouragement to do so ... each in their own way http://serendipstudio.org
http://serendipstudio.org/webology/principles.html

The public/private loop
- Understanding as a social phenomenon
- Valuing diversity
  http://serendipstudio.org/gen_beh/diversity.html
http://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/csem/f01/CsemTalk.html
http://serendipstudio.org/bb/reflections/upa/UPApaper.html
http://serendipstudio.org/local/suminst

http://serendipstudio.org

The Center of Science in Society

Trying to optimize educational/intellectual environments for all (including faculty)

Theorizing Interdisciplinarity

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