VOLUME 1(6) • 2013
INTRODUCTION
This special issue is born to connect more scientific disciplines around an interesting field of research: cognitive transfer in knowledge culture. This goal has led me to reflect on what could be the scientific and cultural matrices with which to conduct these studies. After a consultation with col..
DISIECTA MEMBRA: FROM THE PROPER TO THE IMPROPER BODY. THE PATHS OF KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. This paper examines the correlation between “knowledge” and “perception” with particular reference to the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Hence, the specific paradigm of phenomenology and his new conception of corporeality have been taken into account. In opposition to the traditional Cartesi..
BODILY COMMUNICATION: A BRIEF SUMMARY
ABSTRACT. Nonverbal language has its own epistemological framework where the message is empirically investigated in its essence. A study showed as the 7% of the message content is given by the meaning of the words, the 38% by the tones of the voice and the 55% by facial expressions and body movement..
THE CONTIBUTION OF NEUROSCIENCE IN COGNITIVE TRANSFER
ABSTRACT. This works examines the contribution of the neuroscientific research in the cognitive transfer for the development of transversal capacities allowing a holistic education in the knowledge society. In the first part we introduce the relationship between Cognitive Neurosciences and education..
MOTOR ACTIVITY FOR COGNITIVE TRANSFER IN EDUCATIONAL FIELD
ABSTRACT. This article examines the latest theoretical approaches to the study of motor and cognitive systems that recognize the human motor system a function no longer marginal, but fundamental for cognitive processes. Based on some neuro-scientific evidences, it shows the relationship between corp..
BODY KNOWLEDGE AND MOTOR SKILLS
ABSTRACT. The didactics is traditionally taught by the coach/trainer/teacher with tutorials that have their theoretical basis in the Cognitive approach. It means that the coach/trainer/teacher illustrates the tutorials and the error correction is made by the coach with verbal rules. The tutorials ar..
WELL-BEING, KNOWLEGDE AND CULTURE
ABSTRACT. Well-being can be defined as that individual positive condition of almost full self-realization to be reached in the ages of life. To feel well is a sensation that can be felt in relation to one or more contexts: physical, moral, emotional, religious, social, and so on for the person’s all..
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO COMPETENCE: THE PROCESS OF CONVERTING THEORY-PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. This work aims to a reflection on the relationship between theory and practice in the teaching-learning processes which, in the contemporary debate of pedagogy and education sciences and, more in general, of the individual’s education sciences, plays a crucial role as it relates to the tea..
KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKS AND LEARNING THEORIES
ABSTRACT. This paper provides an overview of the major pedagogical frameworks (behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism) and explains the importance of learning theories concepts. After identifying the changes occurred in technology, learning, and learners’ cognitive profiles, let us to discuss ..
FROM PERSONAL IDENTITY TO PLURALISM OF INTERCULTURAL IDENTITY: A STUDY ON THE TRANSFERABILITY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE TO THE MULTICULTURAL SOCIAL CONTEXTS
ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes the passage from personal identity to multicultural identity. The personal identity of an individual is formed through experience and social activity, is the product emerging dynamic of interpersonal relationships of each person. Today, identity has become synonymous wi..
THE PROBLEM OF EPISTEMIC VALUE: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTANDING
ABSTRACT. In this paper, we will present, on the one hand, those formulations that have motivated research on epistemic value, and the other, discuss the fact that the recent discussions about the value of knowledge has begun to explore the possibility that there is not knowledge that has a special ..
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO ACTION TO BECOME COMPETENT PEOPLE: FROM TRADITIONAL TO AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
ABSTRACT. The authors, in the following article, examine the assessment of skills. The aim of skill assessment is to involve those who are assessed in real tasks to apply their knowledge in contexts of real life. Assessment of skills was born as a response to social demands that require more and mor..