Fourth International School On Mind, Brain And Education
2009 August 1-5
Educational Neurosciences
and Ethics
Directors: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani
The year´s Course focuses on the advances on Mind-Brain Science & Ethics in relation to Education: a new research area that involves two distinct and complimentary fields:
• The ethics of brain- science (neuroethics), a subset of ethics through which we study the moral implications of physical or pharmacological observation and control of the mind and the brain. • The brain-science of ethics that attempts to clarify the mechanism of human ethics originally generated by brain functions.
Both concepts substantially influence educational ethics and are important in the research and practice of education and childcare.
The ethics of each individual involves mechanisms of brain functions resulting from the interaction of hereditary and environmental factors, in particular of education.
Thus the connection between brain-science and social problems and/or ethics is particularly deep, given the fact that through brain-science we explore human learning and teaching, memory, emotion, thinking, judgment, planning and behavior.
New research on ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) is necessary to allow the observation and measurement of persons (starting as infants) as they grow in cooperation with their nurturers for the purpose of obtaining knowledge on individuals and the whole population. By optimizing such cutting-edge knowledge and unraveling the precursor elements in the development of morality and ethics, it will become necessary to establish a future vision of moral and ethical education that includes using mind, brain and education (MBE) to nurture good citizens and promote the universal values of mankind such as truth, beauty and good.
MBE Prize 2009: Zachary SteinANTONIO M. BATTRO
Academia Nacional de Educación, ARGENTINA
One Laptop Per Child Association.
Chief Education Officer.
Neuroethics and Neuroeducation
Abstract
ESTER CHO
Harvard University, USA
SUPARNA CHOUDHUY
Max Planck Institute, GERMANY
Speaking to teens: Public perceptions of the ‘neurological
adolescent’
Abstract
BRUNO DELLA CHIESA
Oecd, FRANCE
Linking Educational Neuroscience with (Global) Ethics,
Morality, Philosophy and Religion?
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KURT W.FISCHER
Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Ethics in Mind, Biology, and Education: The MBE journal
and the learn Internet hub
Abstract
SARA FITZGERALD
Harvard University, USA
TSUKASA FUNANE
Hitachi, JAPAN
Wearable optical topography for measurement of mutually
interactive anterior prefrontal activity
Abstract
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Paper
MARIKO HASEGAWA
Graduate University for Advanced Studies, JAPAN
Evolutionary biology, Neuroscience, and gender issue
Abstract
CHRISTIAN HINTON
Harvard University, USA
KOJI ISHIHARA
Harvard University, USA
Social and Ethical Implications of Autism Research
Abstract
HIDEAKI KOIZUMI
Hitachi, Japan
Mind-Brain science & ethics in Education
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Paper
MAKI KOYAMA
New York University, USA
Brain mechanisms underlying empathy: from clinical
perspectives
Abstract
PETER KURILOFF
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paper
KAYLA LEE
Harvard University, USA
GIUSEPPE LONGO
University of Venice, ITALY
MARÍA LOURDES MAJDALANI
Majdalani Foundation, ARGENTINA
Current research in moral education in schools:
the Argentine case
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Presentation
STEPHANIE PEABODY
Indiana Neuroscience Center, USA
AOKI RYUTA
University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Studies on human prefrontal cortex and its ethical judgment
Paper
BOBA SAMUELS
University of Western Ontario, CANADA
MBE and transdisciplinarity: one view from Canada
Abstract
LESLIE SMITH
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
What can computational neuroscience bring to the Mind/Brain
science and ethics issue?
Abstract
ZACHARY STEIN
Harvard University, USA
The limits of self-objectification and other ethical issues
in Mind, Brain, and Education
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Paper
KATE TAIRYAN
University of British Columbia, CANADA
New models of education in the era of Technology,
Neuroscience and Ethics
Abstract
RITA VARELA
Institución La Miranda, SPAIN
Literature and values
Presentation