Description
Book SynopsisWilliam H. Kitchen is a freelance educational researcher. He currently teaches mathematics at post-primary level in Northern Ireland, and has previously authored
Authority and the Teacher (2014) with Bloomsbury.
Trade ReviewThis book is invaluable as an antidote to the current dangerous emphasis on brain-based education, with its seductive rhetoric. It is a relief to read Kitchen’s thorough, thought-provoking and lucid scrutiny of the phenomenon! The book should be read by anyone committed to the deflation of myths that will otherwise affect millions of pupils, as well as teachers and educators at all levels. * Anita Norlund, Associate Professor of Education, University of Borås, Sweden *
Table of ContentsSeries Editor Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Wittgentsteinian Abbreviations
Part I: An Introduction to Neuroscience and Education 1. Neuroscience, Brain Based Learning and Education 2. Collaborative Reports in Neuroscience and Education 3. A Local Paradigmatic Example, Founded on an International Research Phenomenon
Part II: The Philosophical Critique of Neuroeducation and Brain-Based Learning: Mereology, Asymmetry and Irreducible Uncertainty 4. The Mereological Fallacy 5. First-Person/Third-Person Asymmetry 6. Neuroscience and Irreducible Uncertainty
Part III: The Philosophy of the Inner and the Outer: Neuroscience, Cartesianism and Mind-Brain Identity Theory 7. Inner and Outer: The Epistemology of the Mind 8. Inner and Outer: The Challenges of Crypto-Cartesianism, Materialism and Reductionism
Part IV: Intrinsic and Relational Models of Education: Unifying the Philosophy of Mind and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics 9. Intrinsic and Relational Models of Education 10. Education, Psychology and Physics 11. Bohr’s Philosophy of Physics and its Application to Psychology and Education
Part V: The Wittgenstein-Bohr Model of Education 12. A New Educational Philosophy Based on Bohr’s Interpretation of Quantum Physics 13. Conclusions: Wittgenstein-Bohr Model of Education Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
