Cognition, Thinking & Understanding

Ways of Worldmaking

Ways of Worldmaking examines ways the actual worlds in which we live worlds of the sciences, the arts, practice are made and how they are related. Included are detailed studies of aspects or examples of worldmaking found in the psychological laboratory, in literary criticism, in scientific theories, and in works of art, all contributing to the central themes that facts are fabricated and that knowing or understanding is no more a matter of finding than of making. ISBN: 978-0915144518

Languages of Art

This small but significant bookdrawing upon psychology, linguistics, theory of mind, technology, and the sciences presents an approach to a theory of symbols. It is foundational to a deeper understanding of art in its many forms: music, dance, literature, and the visual arts. ISBN-13: 978-0915144341

Cultures of Thinking Initiative

The Cultures of Thinking Project is a global initiative under the direction of Dr. Ron Ritchhart, a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The CoT initiative considers education to be a social and cultural endeavor whose goal is the development of both the individual and the group as effective learners and thinkers able to engage with and adapt to a changing world. Within this context the most important assessment question we can ask ourselves as educators is: Who are our students becoming as thinkers and learners as a result of their time with us?

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