Programming the Brain:Educational Neuroscience Perspective : Pedagogical Practices and Study Skills for Enhanced Learning and Metacognition Second Edition ... by Relating to Social-Emotional Learn by Chandana Watagodakumbura

Author:Chandana Watagodakumbura [Watagodakumbura, Chandana]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Amazon KDP
Published: 2020-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

Data science requires more than math skills: it also takes people who have a wide-ranging curiosity, and whose innovation is guided by their own experience—not just data. After all, the best intuition takes huge amounts of data, harvesting our entire life experience, and filters it through the human brain.

Pursuing Human Development as a Primary Goal of Education—Dabrowski’s Theory

Human Development to Higher Levels as a Lifelong Learning Process

By enhancing consciousness, we also say that we achieve human development (Dabrowski 1970, 1972, 1977; Colman 2006) into self-actualising/self-transcending (Maslow 1968, 1993) human beings. Following the conceptualisations of Kazimierz Dabrowski, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Jung (Beebe 2006; Casement 2006; Colman 2006; Hauke 2006; Stevens 2006), we use the term human development in this book to indicate the evolvement of human beings as more creative and empathic creatures. These highly evolved individuals possess a higher level of wisdom and enhanced capacities to see and accept reality as is. The higher levels referred to here are what we, as human beings, can biologically achieve as a means of our evolution. We see a direct relationship to the term developmental psychology , especially how it is used more lately to include human potential development throughout the life spans of human beings. Rick Hanson, a psychologist and best-selling author, has highted lifelong learning as the path to human development (or become a resilient human being) in his book Resilient: Find Your Inner Strength (2018):

Going on a long hike, we need to bring food and other supplies. Similarly, on the road of life, we need psychological supplies such as compassion and courage. How do we get these supplies into the neural “backpack”?…We do it by learning. This is a broad term that goes far beyond memorising multiplication tables. Any lasting change of mood, outlook, or behaviour requires learning…About a third of our attributes are innate in our DNA, while the other two-thirds are acquired through learning. This is very good news, since it means we have great influence over who we become, who we learn to be.

In the process of human development, individuals essentially broaden their knowledge base or become more learned or educated in a deeper sense, including raising self-awareness through metacognitive/mindfulness and reflective practices. They tend to see more relationships amongst the knowledge bases they have formed over the years or develop multidimensional perspectives of the world. When individuals engage in the process of learning and development in a lifelong manner, they continue to add additional dimensions of views to their repertoire. As a consequence, they become better problem solvers and decision makers, as we highlighted in the previous section. One important aspect of seeing human development as a goal of education is that we become strategically or long-term oriented, in contrast to having short-term goals of passing examinations or finding employment. As many business organisations essentially have their strategic goals well defined, we can have individuals focussing on strategic goals so that they can stay directed and resilient, even in the face of unavoidable challenges they encounter.

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