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What Scientists Really Do by Priyamvada Natarajan Priyamvada Natarajan in New York Review of Books October 23, 2014:October 23, 2014: 31 Americans’ Beliefs
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Teaching Conservatives, Liberals, AND Libertarians
Phenomenology in Education Research TeamThe University of Tennessee
Deepa Deshpande, Karen Franklin, Brenda Murphy, Russell Patterson, Kristina Plaas, Brian Sohn, Kathy Greenberg, Neil Greenberg, Howard Pollio, and Sandra Thomas
A Conversation
Can Teaching Overcome Cultural Bias?
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What Scientists Really Do by Priyamvada Natarajan in New York Review of Books October 23, 2014:
Evolution Trust Science
Americans’ Beliefs
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Do we ignore the role of intuition at our peril? Does intuition contribute to classroom learning?If so, what about our job of covering course content?
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Freud: "Itzig, wohin reit’st Du?" Itzig: "Weiss ich, frag das Pferd."
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 7 July 1898, in Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse (Origins of Psychoanalysis, 1950:275)
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Principles for Teaching/Learning:
1. Intuitions come first, reasoning second
2. There’s more to [learning] than analytical reasoning & categorizing
3. Intuition binds & blinds our ability to explore alternative views
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Your brain on autopilot…
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Reason is the servant of intuition
Individuals reason to justify beliefs.
Can I believe it? Yes (When it supports my beliefs.)
Must I believe it? No (When it does not support my beliefs.)
Haidt, 2012
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All my knowledge of the world, even my scientific knowledge, is gained from my own particular point of view, or from some experience of the world without which the symbols of science would be meaningless.
Phenomenology of Perception
Merleau-Ponty, 1962
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Biases
Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic
The WEIRDer you are, the more you see a world full of separate objects, rather than relationships (Haidt, 2012)
(Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010)
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Intuition binds & blinds our ability to explore alternatives
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A Conversation…
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Some Suggestions
“My side” and “other side” reasoning (D. Perkins re J. Haidt)
Check-ins (Linda Hill)
Listening to be influenced (Ralph Brickey)
“Say more” –don’t finish other’s sentences (John Peters)
Ask, don’t tell (Bea Fisher)
Class reflections: What stands out? (Howard Pollio)
Worldles
Deep descriptions of personal experiences illustrating course content (Howard Pollio)
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Phenomenology in Education Research TeamPERT
Instructional planning Classroom climate Student and instructor experiences Ethological study of classroom interaction
Weaving perceptions with course content
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Principles of a Phenomenological Approach
Safety
Personal Experience
Guidance
Openness