Tenth International School on Mind, Brain and Education
2015 September 8-12
Teaching
Brain
Directors of the School: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Directors of the Course: Sidney Strauss and Elena Pasquinelli
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani
Must Reads
BASIC READINGS
- Battro, A. (2010). The teaching brain. Mind, Brain, Education, 4, 1, 28-3.
- Csibra, G., Gergely, G. (2011). Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366, 149-57.
- Hewlett, B. S., Fouts, H. N., Boyette, A H. & Hewlett, B. L. (2011). Social learning among Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0373
- Holper, L., Goldin, A. P., Shalom, D. E., Battro, A., Wolf, M. & Sigman, M. (2013). The teaching and the learning brain: A cortical hemodynamic marker of teacher–student interactions in the Socratic dialog. International Journal of Educational Research, 59, 1-10.
- Strauss, S., & Ziv, M. (2012). Teaching is a natural cognitive ability for humans. Mind, Brain, and Education, 6, 4, 186-196.
- Thornton, A. & Raihani, N.J. (2008). The evolution of teaching. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1823-1836.
EXTENDED READINGS
- Strauss, S. (2001). Folk psychology, folk pedagogy and their relations to subject matter knowledge. In B. Torff & R. S. Sternberg (Eds.), Understanding and teaching the intuitive mind (pp. 217-242). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Clark, C. M., & Peterson, P. L. (1986). Teachers’ thought processes. In M. C. Wittrock & American Educational Research Association (Eds.), Handbook of research on teaching: A project of the American Educational Research Association (3rd ed., pp. 255–314). New York, NY: Macmillan.
FOLK PEDAGOGY (AND ITS IMPACT ON TEACHING PRACTICE)
- Strauss, S. & Ziv, M. (2012). Teaching is a natural cognitive ability for humans. Mind, Brain, and Education, 6, 4, 186-196.
TEACHING AS A NATURAL COGNITIVE ABILITY
- Bargh, J. & Schul, Y. (1989). On the cognitive benefits of teaching. Journal of educational psychology, 72, 5, 593-604.
- Henrich, J. & Gil-White, F.J. (2001). The evolution of prestige. Freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. Evolution and human behavior, 22, 165-196.
- Harris, P. & Corriveau, K. (2011). Young children’s selective trust in informants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 366, 1179-1190.
- Owren, M.J., Rendall, D., and Ryan, M. J. (2010) Redefining animal signaling: influence versus information in communication. Biology and Philosophy, 25(5):755--780.
TEACHING, FOR THE TEACHER'S SAKE (COGNITIVE & OTHER BENEFITS OF TEACHING)
- Battro, A. (2010). The teaching brain. Mind, Brain, Education, 4, 1, 28-33.
- Battro, A., Calero, C., Goldin, A.P., Holper, L., Pezzatti, L., Shalom, D.E., Sigman, M. (2013). The cognitive neuroscience of the teacher-student interaction. Mind, Brain, and Education, 7, 3, 177-181.
- Hasson, U., Ghazanfar, A. A., Galantucci, B., Garrod, S., & Keysers, C. (2012).Brain-to-Brain coupling: A mechanism for creating and sharing a social world. Trends in Cognitive Science, 16(2), 114-121. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.12.007
- Holper, L., Goldin, A. P., Shalom, D. E. & Battro, A. (2013). The teaching and the learning brain: A cortical hemodynamic marker of teacher–student interactions in the Socratic dialog. International Journal of Educational Research, 59, 1-10.
- Silbert, L. J., Honey, C. J., Simony, E., Poeppel, D. & Hasson, U. (2014). Coupled neural systems underlie the production and comprehension of naturalistic narrative speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS), 111, 43, E4687–E4696 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323812111
- Strauss, S., Calero, C., Sigman, M. (2014). Teaching, naturally, Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 3, 2, 38-43.
THE TEACHING BRAIN
- Strauss, S. (2014). A call for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of teaching: Inspirations from Howard Gardner. In: M. Konhaber & E. Winner: Mind, Work, and Life. A festschrift in the occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th birthday. Cambridge: The Offices of Howard Gardner.
- Pasquinelli E, Zalla T, Gvodzic K, Potier-Watkins C, Piazza M (2015). Mind, brain, and teaching: Some directions for future research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e54 doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14000697
MULTIDISCIPLINARY ROADMAPS
- Kopp, K. J., Britt, M. A., Millis, K., & Graesser, A. C. (2012). Improving the efficiency of dialogue in tutoring. Learning and Instruction, 22, 320-330. doi: 10.1016/jlearninstruc.s011.12.002
INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
- Bartsch, K., Wright, J. C., & Estes, D. (2010). Young children's persuasion in everyday conversation: Tactics and attunement to others' mental states. Social Development,19(2), 394-416. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00537.x
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
- Passmore, J. (1980). The Philosophy of Teaching. New York: Wiley. ISBN: 0715614657
- Scheffler, I. (1965). Philosophical models of teaching. Harvard Educational Review, 35(2), 131-152. doi: 10.17763/haer.35.2.l662lq64330ml253
PHILOSOPHY
- Putnam, H. (1999) The threefold cord: Mind, body, and world. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Donoghue, J. P. (2002). Connecting cortex to machines: Recenet advances in brain interfaces. Nature Neuroscience Supplement, 5
- Zander, T. O., & Kothe, C. (2011). Towards passive brain–computer interfaces: applying brain–computer interface technology to human–machine systems in general. Journal of Neural Engineering, 8(2), 025005 doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/2/025005
MENTAL PROSTHESIS: BODY-MIND INTERACTION
- Vollmer, A-L., Muhlig, M., Steil, J. J., Pitsch, K., Fritsch, J., Rohlfing, K. J., & Wrede, B. (2014). Robots show us how to teach them: Feedback from robots shapes tutoring behavior during action learning. PLOS ONE, 9(3), e19349
AI AND TEACHING
- Atran, S., & Sperber, D. 1991. Learning without teaching: Its place in culture. In Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development (ed. L.T. Landsmann), pp. 39-55. Ablex: Norwood, NJ.
- Maynard, A. E., & Greenfield, P. M. (2005). Cultural teaching and learning: Processes, effects and development of apprenticeship skills. In Z. Bekerman (Ed.), Learning in Places: The Informal Education Reader (pp. 139-162). New York: Peter Lang.
TEACHING ACROSS CULTURES
- Chazan, M. (2012). Handaxes, concepts, and teaching. Mind, Brain, and Education, 6, 4, 197-203.
- Morgan T. J. H, Uomini N., Rendell, L. E., Chouinard-Thuly L., Street S. E., Lewis H M., Cross, C. P., Evans C., Kearney R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A. & Laland, K.N. (2015). Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making, teaching and language. Nature Communications
- Tehrani, J. J., Riede, F.; (2008) Towards an archaeology of pedagogy: learning, teaching and the generation of material culture traditions. World Archaeology, 40 (3) pp. 316-331.
THE ARCHEOLOGY OF TEACHING
- Akagi, K. (2012). Development of teaching behavior in typically developing children and children with autism. In S. Watanabe (Ed.), CARLS series of advanced study of logic and sensibility (Vol. 5, pp. 425-435). Tokyo: Keio University Press.
- Strauss, S., Ziv, M., & Stein, A. (2002). Teaching as a natural cognition and its relations to preschoolers’ developing theory of mind. Cognitive Development, 17, 1473–1487.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING
- Dean, LG , Kendal, RL, Schapiro, SJ, Thierry, B & Laland, KN 2012, Identification of the social and cognitive processes underlying human cumulative culture. Science, 335, no. 6072, pp. 1114-1118.
- Fogarty, L., Strimling, P. & Laland, K. N. (2011). The evolution of teaching. Evolution, 65, 10, 2760-2770.
- Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A., & Laland, K. N. (2006). Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 29, 329-383.
THE EVOLUTION OF TEACHING
- Heyes, C. (2012). New Thinking: The evolution of cognition. Royal Society Philosphical Transactions B, doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0111
EVOLUTION AND COGNITION
- Hoppitt, W. J. E., G. R. Brown, R. Kendal, L. Rendell, A. Thornton, M. M. Webster & K. N. Laland (2008) Lessons from animal teaching, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, 486-493.
- Thornton, A. & McAuliffe, K. 2012. Teaching can teach us a lot. Animal Behaviour, 83, e6-e9.
- Thornton, A. & Raihani, N.J. (2008). The evolution of teaching. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1823-1836.
ON-HUMAN ANIMAL TEACHING
- Premack, D., & Premack, A. J. (1996). Why animals lack pedagogy and some cultures have more of it than others. In D. R. Olson & N. Torrance (Eds.), The handbook of education and human development: New models of learning, teaching, and schooling (pp. 302–344). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
- Caro, T.M. and Hauser, M.D. (1992) Is there teaching in nonhuman animals? Q. Rev. Biol. 67, 151–174
- Csibra, G. (2007). Teachers in the wild. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 95-96.
HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN TEACHING: A DEBATE
- Morgan T. J. H, Uomini, N., Rendell, L. E., Chouinard-Thuly L., Street S. E., Lewis H M., Cross, C. P., Evans C., Kearney R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A. & Laland, K.N. (2015). Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making, teaching and language. Nature Communications
- Whiten, A., Hinde, R. A., Laland, K. N., & Stringer, C. B. (2011). Culture evolves. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366, 938–948.
TEACHING AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION
- Boyd, R., Richerson, P. J., & Henrich, J. (2011). The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108(2), 10918-10925.
- Pinker, S. (2010). Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107 (supplement 2), 8993-8999.
COGNITIVE AND CULTURAL NICHES: A DEBATE
- Kline, M. (2014). How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals - Preprint (to appear in BBS)
- Skerry et al. (2013). The origins of pedagogy: Developmental and evolutionary perspectives. Evolutionary psychology, 11, 3, 550-572
ATTEMPTS AT A SYNTHESIS (BETWEEN DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACHES AND ANIMAL STUDIES)
- De Waal, F.B.M. and Ferrari, P.F. (2010) Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition. Trends Cogn. Sci. 14, 201–207
- Hemelrijk C.K. & Bolhuis J.J. (2011): A minimalist approach to comparative psychology. Trends in Cognitive. Sciences. 15, 185- 186.
- Shettleworth, S.J. (2010) Clever animals and killjoy explanations in comparative psychology. Trends Cogn. Sci. 14, 477–481