Re: [xmca] Educational neuroscience

[Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>]

Ulvi,

You mentioned you are interested in *cognitive CHANGE*.

Within the concept  *neuroplasticity* is implicit Nero change.

There is a scholar in France [Catherine Malabou] whose central conceptual
thesis explores *plasticity* as from the Greek *to mold  or to model.*
She moves the concepts of *dynamic* and *systems* and *theory* and *neural*
within the orbit of the central thesis of plasticity as change,
transformation and metamorphosis.

Not sure if this is too far off topic.

I also want to mention *neo-Piagetian* theory including Vygotsky and
Wittgenstein is being explored at SIMON Fraser University.
If interested I could say more.
Larry


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Andy and all, I found Kurt Fisher, he is at Harvard, Mind, Brain and
> Education.
>
> He is described as:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Piagetian_theories_of_cognitive_development
>
> Fischer's theory differs from the other neo-Piagetian theories in a number
> of respects. One of them is in the way it explains cognitive change.
> Specifically, although Fischer does not deny the operation of information
> processing constrains on development, he emphasizes on the environmental
> and social rather than individual factors as causes of development. To
> explain developmental change he borrowed two classic notions from Lev
> Vygotsky,[12]<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Piagetian_theories_of_cognitive_development#cite_note-12
> >that
> is, internalization and the zone of proximal development.
>
> I am rather interested in the application of the new findings in the field
> of educational neuroscience into the theory and practice of education.
>
> Ulvi
>
> 2013/7/23 Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
>
> > Ulvi, best of luck in your search, and maybe someone on this list can
> > help. But don't get your hopes up.
> > Lawrence Barsalou is a very sophisticated writer on neuroscience, but in:
> >
> > Barsalou, L. W. (1992) “Cognitive Psychology. An Overview for Cognitive
> > Scientists,” Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
> >
> > where he has a chapter on education, he characterises education as:
> > “teachers provide information that students incorporate into existing
> > knowledge” - in other words, not only does he use "folk psychology" in
> his
> > grasp of the subtlties of education, but he seems to be unaware that this
> > antiquated "theory" of teaching and learning has been subject to any
> > critique over the past 100 years. A classic illustration of the problem
> > that Greg has been raising.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> >
> > Ulvi İçil wrote:
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I would like to know some outstanding scholar names in the field of
> >> educational neuroscience, working in the line of sociocultural theory.
> >> Thanks.
> >> Ulvi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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> > *Andy Blunden*
> > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> > Book: http://www.brill.nl/concepts
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> >
> >
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