When some of my Japanese colleagues translated my book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world, they asked me to write a short introduction. This was in 2019. In the four years since then, we have done many...
While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it! (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological...
I’m so grateful for readers’ responses to The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world! “This book may disorient you – be stirred, not shaken! Lois’s book is about knowledge and knowing, and what is wrong with them. She lays down a...
I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...
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The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...
Returning to my office this morning after a ten-day writing holiday, I found a delightful package waiting for me—several complementary copies of the new book, The Search for Method in STEAM Education by Jaime (Jim) E. Martinez. I’m sure I would have gotten one copy since I’m a close colleague...
I want to introduce you to a unique activist-scholar community that played an especially important role in my development. It's the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (also known as LCHC or, simply, the Lab). Housed at the University of California San Diego since 1979, the Lab is a community of...
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