{"product_id":"seeking-understanding-the-lifelong-pursuit-to-build-the-scientific-mind-9789004416796","title":"Seeking Understanding: The Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quest to understand defines our humanness. Since time immemorial it has given rise to art and literature, philosophical reflection, religious practice, myths, metaphor, and allegory, as well as, in more recent history, disciplined scientific inquiry. Seeking understanding is a lifelong journey towards a goal the parameters of which change as our pursuit progresses, until, at life’s end, the goal vanishes beyond the horizon. Such is humanness. Along the way, we build, in an enduring self-transformative fashion, our mind—the scientific mind. But what is that mind?    A transdisciplinary team of 21 prominent authors, from areas such as music history, psychiatry, physics, cosmology, education, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, gaming, artificial intelligence, science communication, early child development, science education, and economics, shed light on what it takes humans to build and cultivate the scientific mind along the lifespan. A decade of intercultural dialogue preceded the book. It comprised six major international Building the Scientific Mind colloquia in culturally diverse settings that spanned the entire planet. Several hundred people from different disciplines and interests—among them distinguished scientists, policy and decision makers, practitioners and thinkers—contributed to the dialogue.    Building the scientific mind transforms our ‘way of being in the world.’ It is driven by the desire to understand deeply—cognitively and affectively—who we are in a world of which we are an integral part. It has great relevance for sustained human existence in the Anthropocene and profound implications for how we organize the conditions for informal and formal learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword   Walter R. Erdelen  Acknowledgements  List of Figures and Tables  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: The Making of This Book and Its Roots in Creative Collaboration   Jan Visser and Muriel Visser  Intermezzi: Thoughts Inspired by the Thoughts of Others   Jan Visser    1 The Quest to Know: Seeking Understanding and Wisdom   Jan Visser  Intermezzo 1: The Missing Piece   Jan Visser  2 Context Is Everything and Everything Has Meaning   Robert Greenberg  Intermezzo 2: Life Starts Long before Its Beginning   Jan Visser  3 From Preconception to Preschool: The Foundation of the Scientific Mind   Emily Vargas-Barón  Intermezzo 3: Touching the Encountered World   Jan Visser  4 Saga of a Small Science Center   Arvind Gupta  Intermezzo 4: The Worthwhile Struggle to Overcome Inertia   Jan Visser  5 Expanding the Dialogue: Challenging the Mental Models of Schooling through Indigenous Invention   Paul E. Heckman  Intermezzo 5: When the Sky Is Not the Limit, It Could Be the Beginning   Jan Visser  6 The Inspiring Universe   George Miley, Carolina Ödman and Pedro Russo  Intermezzo 6: Never Ever without Passion   Jan Visser  7 Playing the Role of Facilitator: Questioning the Curious Mind   Jos van den Broek  Intermezzo 7: On Dialogue   Jan Visser  8 How You Talk Is How You Think; How You Think Is How You Understand   Paul Webb  Intermezzo 8: Facing Life’s Biggest Questions   Jan Visser  9 Seeking to Know and Understand the Self   Premana W. Premadi  Intermezzo 9: A Sense of Beauty   Jan Visser  10 Beauty in Science, Science in Beauty: The Scientific Aesthetic as an Evolving Heuristic   Matthew Colless  Intermezzo 10: Making the Unfamiliar Familiar   Jan Visser  11 Science Popularizer Is the Most Important Job That Does Not Yet Exist: Why Modern Societies Need More Science Popularizers   Lê Nguyên Hoang  Intermezzo 11: It’s Not Just a Right; It’s an Obligation to the Future   Jan Visser  12 Fostering Inquiry, Reasoning and Critical Thinking   J. Michael Spector  Intermezzo 12: How Long Can We Still Wait and Who Takes Responsibility?   Jan Visser  13 The Shifting Mind of Economics   Martinus Petrus de Wit  Intermezzo 13: Looking Back with a View to Looking Forward   Jan Visser  14 Invent the Future   Federico Mayor  Intermezzo 14: Culture of Differences vs. Difference of Cultures   Jan Visser  15 Seeking to Find out Why Things Happen: Variations on a Theme of Diallo Sampa’s Grandfather   Ralf Syring  Intermezzo 15: Reverence for Life, Whatever Its Manifestations   Jan Visser  16 Nontraditional Pathways to the Development of a Scientific Mind: Examples from the Domain of Psychopathology   Stephen P. Hinshaw  Intermezzo 16: Homo Ludens   Jan Visser  17 Education in a Complex World: Nurturing Chaordic Agency through Game Design   Carlo Fabricatore and Ximena López  Intermezzo 17: Where Science Ends   Jan Visser  18 HIV, Medical Science and the Call to Greater Humanness   James Lees    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210788626775,"sku":"9789004416796","price":136.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeking-understanding-the-lifelong-pursuit-to-build-the-scientific-mind-9789004416796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}