I love the sentiment here (from Failure: Why Science is So Successful by Stuart Firestein) You may have noticed that I have a fondness for quotes. It's not so much that I think quoting famous people gives a statement more authority or is less open to criticism. Rather, I think that just because...
A great interview with Sugata Mitra (and a feisty RT interviewer) [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOSLMYu1ZY&feature=share[/youtube]...
"Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World." From the essay, A Thousand Rivers" by Carol Black. It's a wide-ranging indictment of educational and psychological research, and a passionate plea to see how children in...
With the damp dog Curled On my lap My laptop glows An open window on the world A world I'd like to ignore For now. Because now is quiet and still Now is like a tree Singing to itself In the storm. Dan Friedman July 29, 2016 ...
Check out a guest column by my friend and colleague Peter Smagorinsky at my Psychology Today blog, A Conceptual Revolution....
“Disorder” is an inappropriate term to attach as a fundamental part of the name of a neurological condition. Whether it’s order or disorder is a matter of how it works in relation to other people and settings. Unless this basic idea becomes better understood, too many people will go...
David Harper of the University of East London calls for moving beyond individual therapy. Read his essay in The Psychologist (British Psychological Society). "Psychologists could start by going out more to where people conduct their everyday lives (e.g. where they live, study or work). We could encourage more ‘bottom-up’ rather than...
The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...
What is under consideration is not the ontological state of affairs, but the ontological commitments of a discourse. What there is does not in general depend on one’s use of language, but what one says there is does. American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) ...
Instead of thinking that you have to put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it,...