Seeking understanding : the lifelong pursuit to build the scientific mind / edited by Jan Visser and Muriel Visser ; foreword by Walter R. Erdelen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Visser, Jan, Dr., editor.

Visser, Muriel, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Methodology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 373 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Sense, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Foreword / Walter R. Erdelen

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

The quest to know : seeking understanding and wisdom / Jan Visser

Intermezzo 1 : the missing piece / Jan Visser

Context is everything and everything has meaning / Robert Greenberg

Intermezzo 2 : life starts long before its beginning / Jan Visser

From preconception to preschool : the foundation of the scientific mind / Emily Vargas-Barón

Intermezzo 3 : touching the encountered world / Jan Visser

Saga of a small science center / Arvind Gupta

Intermezzo 4 : the worthwhile struggle to overcome inertia / Jan Visser

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

The inspiring universe / George Miley, Carolina Ödman and Pedro Russo

Intermezzo 6 : never ever without passion / Jan Visser

Playing the role of facilitator : questioning the curious mind / Jos van den Broek

Intermezzo 7 : on dialogue / Jan Visser

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

Seeking to know and understand the self / Premana W. Premadi

Intermezzo 9 : a sense of beauty / Jan Visser

Beauty in science, science in beauty : the scientific aesthetic as an evolving heuristic / Matthew Colless

Intermezzo 10 : making the unfamiliar familiar / Jan Visser

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

Fostering inquiry, reasoning and critical thinking / J. Michael Spector

Intermezzo 12 : how long can we still wait and who takes responsibility? / Jan Visser

The shifting mind of economics / Martinus Petrus De Wit

Intermezzo 13 : looking back with a view to looking forward / Jan Visser

Invent the future / Federico Mayor

Intermezzo 14 : culture of differences vs. difference of cultures / Jan Visser

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

Nontraditional pathways to the development of a scientific mind : examples from the domain of psychopathology / Stephen P. Hinshaw

Intermezzo 16 : Homo ludens / Jan Visser

Education in a complex world : nurturing chaordic agency through game design / Carlo Fabricatore and Ximena López

Intermezzo 17 : where science ends / Jan Visser

HIV, medical science and the call to greater humanness / James Lees.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Seeking understanding

ISBN:

9789004416802

9004416803

Publisher Number:

99984251360

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.