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.


Participants
MBE Prize 2009: Zachary Stein



ANTONIO 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?
Abstract / Paper

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 / 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
Abstract / 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
Abstract / 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
Abstract / 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