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Understanding the Brain: Implications for Education Paul Grobstein Counseling Association of Greater Philadelphia 19 December 2002

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The student (and teacher and counselor and ....) as brain
Education as applied neurobiology

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/brainpsychoanal.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/suminst/bbi02)

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)

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

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/truth.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~pgrobste/pragmatism.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f01/science.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/suminst/eei01/pginquiry/)

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

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro02
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/suminst/bbi02)
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reflections/upa/

Part of a new perspective: the inside/outside loop (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/brainedparallels.html)

Evidence for the creative, bipartite brain

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

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/blindspot1.html)

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/freewill1.html)

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~pgrobste/artscience/
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/ambigfig

The Upshot

(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/csem/f01/CsemTalk.html
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reflections/upa/UPApaper.html)

Implications for education

• Brains are fundamentally scientist/explorers

• Brains are inherently different from one another

  (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/gen_beh/diversity.html
  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/mindbody/mood.html)

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

  (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/csem/f01/CsemTalk.html
  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/reflections/upa/UPApaper.html)

• What brains need is adequate space to explore and encouragement to do so ... each in their own way

  (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu
  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/webology/principles.html)

  

• The public/private loop

  • Understanding as a social phenomenon
  • Valuing diversity (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/gen_beh/diversity.html)

  
  
  http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/suminst

  
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