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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The basic idea of the particular way of understanding mental phenomena that has inspired
the
"cognitive revolution" is that, as a result of certain
relatively recent intellectual and technological
innovations, informed theorists now possess a more powerfully insightful comparison or
model for
mind than was available to any thinkers in the past. The model in question is that of
software, or the
list of rules for input, output, and internal transformations by which we determine and
control the
workings of a computing machine's hardware.
Although this comparison and its many implications have dominated work in the philosophy,
psychology, and neurobiology of mind since the end of the Second World War, it now shows increasing signs of losing its once virtually
unquestioned preeminence. Thus
we now face the question of whether it is possible to repair and save this model by means
of relatively inessential "tinkering", or whether we must reconceive it
fundamentally and replace it with something different.
In this book, twenty-eight leading scholars from diverse fields of "cognitive
science"-linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, and philosophy- present their
latest, carefully considered judgements about what they think will be the future course of
this intellectual movement, that in many respects has been a watershed in our contemporary
struggles to comprehend that which is crucially significant about human beings.
Jerome Bruner,
Noam Chomsky,
Margaret Boden,
Ulric Neisser,
Rom Harre,
Merlin Donald,
among others, have all written chapters
in a non-technical style that can be enjoyed and understood by an inter-disciplinary
audience of
psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists alike.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195103343/search0a/104-2127136-2012743
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Cognitive Science http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/wh_cogx.htm
2001-02-06
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"Visual Tools for
Constructing Knowledge
by David Hyerle
Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. All
rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any
information storage and retrieval system, without permission from ASCD.
Foreword
Can you draw thinking? Can you sing it? Can you sculpt it? Are these crazy questions?
Not according to David Hyerle and Art Costa and a
distinguished procession of ASCD writers and thinkers. From a program called TACTICS
for Thinking, to a book called Dimensions of Thinking and another titled Developing
Minds, to the books
and professional development programs of the Dimensions of Learning program,
ASCD has led thousands of teachers and students in many countries to develop—and
draw—the dimensions and shapes and directions of their thinking. Not only can
you draw thinking, but music helps you think, according to other ASCD authors who have
described how the brain works.
As Hyerle points out, the brain works by making patterns; and we can visualize this
process through a medium called "visual tools." Many of us have used the three types of visual tools that Hyerle discusses: brainstorming
webs, task-specific organizers, and thinking-process maps.
If you flip through this book, you will see many diagrams you will instantly recognize;
but please read the text to see why you and your students should use them, and how to get
the most out of these tools."
See much more in the
full original: http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/books/hyerle96book.html
See also
LJ_Visualization
Mind Maps LJ_Mind
Maps
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