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245 0 0 _aSeeking Understanding :
_bThe Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind /
_cJan Visser, Muriel Visser.
246 3 _aThe Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBrill | Sense,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836
505 0 0 _tFront Matter --
_tCopyright page --
_tAdvance Praise for Seeking Understanding --
_tDedication --
_tForeword /
_rWalter R. Erdelen --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tFigures and Tables --
_tNotes on Contributors --
_tIntroduction: The Making of This Book and Its Roots in Creative Collaboration /
_rJan Visser and Muriel Visser --
_tIntermezzi: Thoughts Inspired by the Thoughts of Others /
_rJan Visser --
_tThe Quest to Know /
_rJan Visser --
_tThe Missing Piece /
_rJan Visser --
_tContext Is Everything and Everything Has Meaning /
_rRobert Greenberg --
_tLife Starts Long before Its Beginning /
_rJan Visser --
_tFrom Preconception to Preschool /
_rEmily Vargas-Barón --
_tTouching the Encountered World /
_rJan Visser --
_tSaga of a Small Science Center /
_rArvind Gupta --
_tThe Worthwhile Struggle to Overcome Inertia /
_rJan Visser --
_tExpanding the Dialogue /
_rPaul E. Heckman --
_tWhen the Sky Is Not the Limit, It Could Be the Beginning /
_rJan Visser --
_tThe Inspiring Universe /
_rGeorge Miley, Carolina Ödman and Pedro Russo --
_tNever Ever without Passion /
_rJan Visser --
_tPlaying the Role of Facilitator /
_rJos van den Broek --
_tOn Dialogue /
_rJan Visser --
_tHow You Talk Is How You Think; How You Think Is How You Understand /
_rPaul Webb --
_tFacing Life’s Biggest Questions /
_rJan Visser --
_tSeeking to Know and Understand the Self /
_rPremana W. Premadi --
_tA Sense of Beauty /
_rJan Visser --
_tBeauty in Science, Science in Beauty /
_rMatthew Colless --
_tMaking the Unfamiliar Familiar /
_rJan Visser --
_tScience Popularizer Is the Most Important Job That Does Not Yet Exist /
_rLê Nguyên Hoang --
_tIt’s Not Just a Right; It’s an Obligation to the Future /
_rJan Visser --
_tFostering Inquiry, Reasoning and Critical Thinking /
_rJ. Michael Spector --
_tHow Long Can We Still Wait and Who Takes Responsibility? /
_rJan Visser --
_tThe Shifting Mind of Economics /
_rMartinus Petrus de Wit --
_tLooking Back with a View to Looking Forward /
_rJan Visser --
_tInvent the Future /
_rFederico Mayor --
_tCulture of Differences vs. Difference of Cultures /
_rJan Visser --
_tSeeking to Find out Why Things Happen /
_rRalf Syring --
_tReverence for Life, Whatever Its Manifestations /
_rJan Visser --
_tNontraditional Pathways to the Development of a Scientific Mind /
_rStephen P. Hinshaw --
_tHomo Ludens /
_rJan Visser --
_tEducation in a Complex World /
_rCarlo Fabricatore and Ximena López --
_tWhere Science Ends /
_rJan Visser --
_tHIV, Medical Science and the Call to Greater Humanness /
_rJames Lees --
_tBack Matter --
_tIndex.
520 _aThe 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCognitive psychology.
700 1 _aJan Visser,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aMuriel Visser,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tSeeking Understanding: The Lifelong Pursuit to Build the Scientific Mind,
_dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2020
_w9789004416796
830 0 _aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004416802
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