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Dance is hard to see ... the purest form of knowledge?
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 1:06pmA month ago I spent several hours watching an opening session in the development of the dance piece "Dance is Hard to See," and talking with choreographer Kathryn Tebordo and the dancers about what I had seen and what dance was, or might be, all about. "Dance is the purest form of knowledge" emerged from that conversation, which was a rich experience for me, one I have been mulling ever since. I'm very much looking forward to this coming Sunday's performance of "Dance is Hard to See," to seeing how it has evolved and talking more with Kathryn, the performers, and other audience members about, among other things, what it says about what dance is (see
Summer K-16 Institutes on Inquiry/Brain/Science/Education
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BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR INSTITUTE 2009Continuing Conversation |
Science Education Workshop - October 2009
Science as Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry
The Three Loops and their Implications for the Classroom
Workshop with the science faculty at Delaware Valley Friends School
Paul Grobstein
9 October 2009
Overview
Evolving Systems: August 2009 Core Group Meeting
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
August 18, 2009 Core Group Meeting
Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion
Background (Paul's version):
Loopiness: conflict, humanness, and the universe
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 5:13pmI've been thinking a lot this summer not only about my own story of myself but also about some general ways of thinking about ... selves, interpersonal relations, inquiry, humanity, and our relation to the universe. Central to all is has been the notion of "looping," a recurrent and infinitely extended process in which existing structures and forms interact with each other and with an underlying persistent randomness to generate new structures and forms.
Emergent Pedagogy, the Brain, Conflict, and Social Dynamics
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The Brain and Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry: 30 July 2009 |
The Taoist Story Teller and Culture: Do We Still Need Truth, Reality, and/or God?
The 2009 Metanexus meeting, plane rides to/from Phoenix reading Raymond Smullyan's The Tao is Silent and Ann Harrington's The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine, conversations last week with Bharath Vallabha (see Truth and Power in Education), Alice Lesnick, and Ben Olshin, and discussions in our K-12 summer institutes all seem to bear on the above question(s), and suggest an interesting approach to them.
Of Serendipitous Interest
Of Serendipitous Interest
A conglomeration of links...
July 25th, 2009
Neurodiversity Forever; The Disability Movement Turns to Brains (NYT)
