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Map of Reality

If you click here, you will be taken to a 'realitymap' page that provides information about and links to the following various pages,'George Kelly' and his construct theory, 'meaningfulness', 'iteration', 'thought codes', 'cognition' and 5 levels of mental growth. These are 'conjecture', 'convergence', 'patterns', 'unity' 'gestalt' 'pmor'. This information will be on the 'realitymap' page in the same manner as it is on this page.

Karl Popper

If you click here, you will be taken to the Karl Popper page which will convey Popper's understanding of how learning to take place. It covers his ideas concerning the need for the universal invariece that allows the world to make sense, as well as ideas concerning the three worlds of knowledge, the objective world of reality, the subjective world within each mind, and the world of human collective knowledge.

Plasticity

This page covers such topics as neurogenisis, how the brain renews its cells, neuroplasticity, how the brain changes through learning and adapts to damage and aging. The ever changing brain is explained as how learning is accomplished. The brain's adaptability is explained as brain map reasignment which happens through brain expantion, sensory reasignment, compensatory masquerade and mirror region takeover.

Maria Montessori

If you click here, you will be taken to the Maria Montessori page that conveys the contributions by her to the understanding of learning. It covers the idea that learning is facilitated through the provision of optimal environments for it to take place in and her ideas of sensitive periods in which learning most readily takes place. It also covers her ideas about how learning must be an active process rather than passive.

The Art of Knowing

If you click here, you will be taken to the 'knowing' page. This page is about how we can know if information coming from experts is correct or not. Learnig is of course of no use to us if the information we are accumulating is wrong. What we need is some way of accessing experts to find what information is trustworth. This page seeks to provide us with this help to determine whether expert information is likely to be correct or not.

Neuroscience

If you click here, you will be taken to the neuroscience page. This page covers the latest developments neuroscience and how this new understanding is related to and essential in learning. This covers many topics as expressed in John Medina's brain rules such as stress, sleep and dreaming, exercise, attention, brain wiring, survival, vision, gender and exploration. Also covered are imitation and prevention of brain deterioration.

Interests

If you click here, you will be taken to an 'interests' map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning, a reinterpretation of B. F. Skinner's work, 'associations', 'context', 'Bateson', 'reinforcement', 'mind threads', 'the spiral path' and 'intrinsic motives'. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that 'interests' map page in the same manner as it is on this page.

Hierarchy of Needs

If you click here, you will be taken to a needs map page that provides information about and links to various pages concerning Maslow and his hierarchy. The information concerning those pages, will be provided on that needs map page in the same manner as it is on this page. The information will cover pages that will include, an overview page of Maslow's work and pages for each of the need levels in his hierarchy of needs.

Memory

If you click here, you will be taken to the memory page. This site proposes that memories are a web of connections. This explains why, the more elaborated these webs become, the more entry points there are for reaching the memory. This page covers most of the different types of memory that occur in our brains and how these types of memory relate to learning. It also covers how recall of these memories functions.

Self Control

If you click here, you will be taken to the self-control page wher you can learn how to control your unconscious mind. This page attempts to show how bad habits may be replaced by good ones by reprogramming the automatic or robotic part of the mind and replacing self destructive routines with healthy self enhancing ones. The page also expains how this is dependent on connecting to and investing in our personal future.