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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

Neurodiversity

Learning from "From the Inside":
A Neurodiverse World

Paul Grobstein
August 2009

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

I'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

The Brain and Open-Ended Transactional Inquiry:
A Story of Three Loops, and of Conflict

Paul Grobstein

Inquiry Institute

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.