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Re: [xmca] Educational neuroscience
Thanks Larry, I would really be interested if you can say more and if it
will not be time consuming for you. You are right, I also met Simon Fraser
during my search.
Thanks again.
Ulvi
2013/7/24 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**
> > > ------------
> > > *Andy Blunden*
> > > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> > > Book: http://www.brill.nl/concepts
> > > http://marxists.academia.edu/**AndyBlunden<
> > http://marxists.academia.edu/AndyBlunden>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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