X

We're currently in our 2023 funding drive. Nearly everything HRP produces is free — your donation ensures that our work sustains itself. We need your help to keep HRP alive! Check out our fundraising page, support us, and receive donor gifts. Let's restore humanity, together.

Keep Us Going!read our impact report
inform
guide
grow
about
support

Behaviorism & "Cog Sci" - Oh No!

#
99
November 7, 2021
Deeply examining behaviorism's pervasiveness and danger to classrooms everywhere.

In this podcast, Nick and I are continuing our foray into random topics of progressive education! Today's episode centers cognitive science, research movements, and "studies of the brain." Within, we'll be talking about what's currently going on at HRP, articles and books that Nick and I have been reading recently, what's going on in our classrooms, Q&A from listeners via Twitter, and then a pop-quiz for who stays alive.

Guest

Hosted by Human Restoration Project.

Transcription (click to expand)

A UFO icon.

links

Mary-Helen Immordino-Yang's work and development in neuroscience

Audrey Watter's Teaching Machines, and the history of B.F. Skinner/behaviorism, especially his behaviorist "Utopian" book Walden Two

Nick using the "Tier List Maker" for class assignments

Chris using Floop for workshoping and ungrading

Responding to "How do you motivate reluctant learners?" and "What does a student-driven curriculum look like in practice?"

A game show(!) featuring "Doug Lemov (Teach Like a Champion) said what!?" and "Ungrading: The Research." Who will be sent out of the airlock?

An audio icon.

listen to more

A Look Inside "No Excuses" Charter Schools w/ Dr. Joanne Golann
A breakdown of research of attending "no excuses" charter schools.
Connecting with Students for Greater Well-Being w/ Monte Syrie
Identifying how and why relationships are critical to reforming school systems.
Combatting Adultism to Create a Flourishing Democracy w/ Dr. Tanu Biswas & Dr. John Wall
Aligning social justice work to childism in classrooms.
A feather inkwell icon.

read this next

Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity
Chris McNutt
In our mission to be the best possible educators for young people, it is imperative that we understand the art and science of teaching beyond simple prescriptive ideas.
Why “What Works” Won’t Work and Why “What Works” May Hurt
Nick Covington
In this article I’ll unpack the criticisms and limits of “what works” in what we call evidence-based educational research and practice.
A YouTube icon.

watch now

100 Seconds to Midnight: The Need for a Human-Centered Education
Human Restoration Project
Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Fascist Tyranny
Dr. Henry Giroux
MINDFOOD I: Top 10 Books Every Progressive Educator Should Read
Nick Covington & Chris McNutt

Join the Movement

Stay Informed

Thank you for subscribing.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Human Restoration Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. PO Box 322. Slater, IA. 50244. United States.
All content is released under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike international license unless otherwise noted.

And I think another thing, in terms of academics in the classroom, the value of going into a class and walking out of it, maybe tired, like, "Oh, that was a lot of work." But feeling like you really took something from it, like an accomplishment, like you literally just built something in your brain, like a new piece of knowledge, it's like, "Oh, yes." It's satisfying. It's an achievement.

Owen

Where's this from?

Partner
Coalitions
Jobs