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Title: Educating the Evolved Mind
Author : Jerry S. Carlson
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 1546 KB

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In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings childrenâ€™s education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, â€œevolutionary educational psychology.â€ Geary presents the case that a scientifically grounded approach to childrenâ€™s schooling and, to a lesser degree, their later occupational interests can be informed by recent advances in the application of evolutionary theory to the understanding of the human brain, mind, and its development. He develops a taxonomy of evolved cognitive abilities and describes how, from an evolutionary perspective, these abilities are modified and refined during childhood. From there, he lays the framework for understanding the relation between evolved abilities, such as language, and the non-evolved competencies that are built from them with schooling, such as reading. Geary describes the mechanisms, such as working memory, that enable humans to transform evolved cognitive abilities into culturally important, school taught competencies. These are integrated with discussion of human intellectual history and cultural evolution, and the sources of childrenâ€™s motivation to learn inside and outside of the classroom. In all, this may well be the most revolutionary theory of childrenâ€™s schooling since Rousseau.