Seventh International School On Mind, Brain And Education

2012 July 30 - August 4

Teaching: A New Frontier
of the Neurocognitive
Sciences, Education
and Culture

Directors: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani


Teaching is a very special capacity that has evolved to reach a formidable social impact in the human species. Moreover teaching abilities start at early ages. We can now study the unfolding of the teaching capacities with the help of advanced digital technologies and brain images.

Cultures show different types of teaching behaviors and formal pedagogies that coexist in an increasingly globalized world. We expect to discuss some leading issues of this challenging and rapidly evolving educational landscape.


Participants
MBE Prize 2012: Elena Pasquinelli



Evolution and Development of Teaching:

ANTONIO M. BATTRO

Academia Nacional de Educación, ARGENTINA
One Laptop Per Child Association.
Chief Education Officer.
Going deep into Socrates’ teaching brain: fNIRS, transfer and the Meno experiment
Abstract

SIDNEY STRAUSS

School of Education, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL
Teaching’s wide scope
Abstract

GENTARO TAGA

University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Education, JAPAN
Developmental cognitive neuroscience approach to learning and teaching
Abstract

MICHAEL CHAZAN

Department of Archeology, University of Toronto, CANADA
Teaching and learning: some perspectives from Prehistory
Abstract

KAZUO YANO

Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, JAPAN
The science of face-to-face interaction and teaching
Abstract

Hideaki Koizumi

Hitachi, JAPAN
What is “teaching” from the viewpoint of Brain-Science?
Abstract

PIERRE LÉNA

Université Paris VII Denis Diderot – Observatoire de Paris, Département de Recherche Spatiale, FRANCE
Teaching natural sciences: from yesterday to tomorrow
Abstract

ELENA PASQUINELLI

Fondation La Main à la pate - Institut Jean Nicod - Institute of cognitive studies, FRANCE
Slippery slopes. How to favor a good encounter between education and the sciences of the mind-brain
Abstract / Presentation

Culture and Teaching:

CARLA RINALDI

International Centre Loris Malaguzzi, Reggio Emilia, ITALY
Making learning visible. Children as individual and group learners
Abstract

SORAYA UMEWAKA

Movie Director and Noh Theater Actress, JAPAN
Multimedia and the teachings of Zeami
Abstract

MARYANNE WOLF

Tufts University, USA
Implications of the evolving reading brain for intervention
Abstract

GIUSEPPE LONGO

University of Verona, ITALY
Empathy and literature: a neurocognitive approach to the educational goals of literary didactics
Abstract

CLARA MILAZZO

Università degli Studi di Perugia, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ITALY
Artistic youth, the genesis of empathy, and a right hemispheric development hypothesis suggested by the recent work of Ian McGilchrist
Abstract

PAOLO FERRI

University Milano Bicocca, ITALY
The use of digital technologies
Abstract

HORACIO REGGINI

National Academy of Exact Physical and Natural Sciences, Academy of Education and Academy of Letters, ARGENTINA
Back to books and their metamorphosis
Abstract / Presentation

The Theaching Brain:

VANESSA RODRIGUEZ

Graduate School of Education, Harvard, USA
An MBE model of the teaching brain: Towards a more comprehensive approach for educating with “both” brains in mind
Abstract

MIRIAM REINER

Faculty of Education in Technology and Science, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
The tacit neural components of teaching, learning and evaluation
Abstract

YADIN DUDAI

Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, ISRAEL
Learning in a changing world: When more is less, and less is more
Abstract

KATSUMI WATANABE

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology RCAST, Tokyo University, JAPAN
Measuring cognitive performances and its relation to educational practices: Toward interdisciplinary collaborations between basic research and applied fields
Abstract

JIAXIAN ZHOU

East China Normal University, Shanghai, CHINA
Culturally appropriate pedagogy: Evidence from neuroscience
Abstract