Education and the Brain: New Challenges and New Directions
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Intersubjectivity ... and Culture (loop 3) |
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Culture and intersubjectivity are not parallel to individual stories but grow interactively out of them
- Intersubjectivity and culture provide an additional mechanism both for testing existing stories and for creating new ones
- Diversity is an asset, rather than a problem, for both processes but most particularly for the second
- Inquiry, and education in inquiry, should include
- Encouraging the development of new stories
- Comparing/contrasing conflicting stories without quickly dismissing any
- Noticing patterns across the stories of different disciplines
- Conceiving stories as yet unconceived and testing those
On to implications for inquiry and education ...