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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Enactivism"”.
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A New Framework for Enactivism: Understanding the enactive body through structural flexibility and Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of flesh
… in the sciences of mind. As an embodied account, enactivism incorporates theoretical perspectives on the body from phenomenology, cognitive science, and biology, which provides a unique interpretation of embodiment with critical insight into the embodied nature of cognition and consciousness. …
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Finding my woof by tweaking the warp : a personal account of an attempt to better understand learning in a Communication Design course
… Design teaching practice from the perspective of enactivism, a term coined by two Chilean theoretical biologists, Humberto Maturana and the late Francisco Varela. Enactivism as a discourse, has its origins in philosophical hermeneutics and means that through our living in the world we are in fact …
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A compatibilist computational theory of mind
… these is the contemporary criticism coming from enactivism, a theory that argues that cognition is born not from internal processes but from dynamic interactions between brain, body and world. The radical version of enactivism in particular seeks to reject the idea of representational content, a …
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The 'feeling of what happens' in fourth year : exploring the emotive dimensions of learning in a communication design programme
… the holistic theories of cognition offered by enactivism and complexity thinking. Some of the more established learning theories have clarified areas of concern I encountered in interpreting the data. Among my aspirations for the education of fourth year design graduates are those that tend …
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Turning with wa(y)ves of learning to use drama in my teaching
… and my approach are based in the theory of enactivism. The Discipline of Noticing and Action Research are used in combination to systematically reflect and analyse my experiences during a Drama in Education course. I compare the experience to surfing, another endeavour that is learnt by …
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EXPLORING DREAMING CONSCIOUSNESS FROM AN ENACTIVIST PERSPECTIVE
… of dreams. The major argument is: enactivism can answer the challenge from dreams and propose a more advantageous account of dreaming experiences than behaviorism and functionalism. In particular, the enactivist account of dreams proposed in this thesis can explain two special …
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An enactive inquiry into mathematics confidence : a case study of nine pre-service primary school teachers
… aspect of their prior experiences. The theory of Enactivism has been used to explain their understanding of mathematics confidence as well as their prior experiences. Furthermore, various coping strategies used during their teaching practicum will also be discussed.
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Re-cognising teaching and learning in an Ad mathematics programme
… new holistic theories of cognition inherent in enactivism. This is a piece of work which attempts to foreground my voice as a teacher and draws data, both quantitative and qualitative from my practice in a continual feedback loop of questioning leading to data, leading to interpretation, leading …
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The interdependence of nature and nurture in the establishment and maintenance of mind: an eco-dynamic paradigm
… paradigm,” which modifies and supplements enactivism. This dissertation has two main theses: first, mind is established and maintained by features that draw on the resources of the brain, body and the contextual environment in which one is embedded. The second thesis is that Dynamic Systems …
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Mind and World in Literary Modernism: Cognition and Experience in D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
… experiences. Reading his work in the light of enactivism, I argue that his embodied boundary must be set as a division between the individual and the world. The second chapter on Mansfield looks at her depiction of emotion as an inevitable and crucial part of cognitive processes. Understanding …
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What Next? Unpacking Anticipatory EEG Oscillations in Auditory, Tactile and Visual Modalities: Relations with Behavior and Executive Function in Children and Adults
Anticipation refers to preparation for upcoming events in the environment (Clark, 1998; Ondobaka & Bekkering, 2007; Allen & Friston, 2016). The ability to anticipate – as manifested in the preparatory actions and neural activation in expectation of an upcoming target stimulus – may play a key role …