<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS<br><br>The 3rd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences<br>Itacaré, Bahia, Brasil<br>04-16 March, 2013<br><a href="http://www.laschool4education.com/">http://www.laschool4education.com</a><br><br>Background<br>We live in the great cognitive acceleration of the post-computer era,<br>at the dawn of a world wide web of unprecedented possibilities.<br>However, as knowledge undergoes explosive accumulation, more grows the<br>intellectual distance between rich and poor. Measures of educational<br>quality show that all Latin American countries, with the notable<br>exception of Cuba, are placed far away from the leaders in Europe,<br>USA, Israel, Japan and Austrália, while African countries lie in the<br>lowest end of the ranks. Even within developed countries, educational<br>unequality is starking. Offering equal educational opportunity for<br>children of the entire world will require a wise investment of<br>resources in the most critical aspects of education, so as to promote<br>the social comeback that only knowledge provides among the offspring<br>of culturally deprived parents.<br><br>Modern societies increasingly demand education based on scientific<br>evidence. We must thus work towards applying what we know about human<br>cognition to the classroom practice. The Latin American School for<br>Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences (LA School ) is the result of<br>a meeting that took place in Santiago de Chile in 2007. This meeting<br>brought together scientists interested in the Brain/Education Barrier<br>and led to the Santiago Declaration, which you are kindly invited to<br>read at <a href="http://www.jsmf.org/santiagodeclaration/">http://www.jsmf.org/santiagodeclaration/</a><br><br>Aims<br><br>The LA School is based on the observation that schools teach science,<br>math and language in quite nonscientific ways. Different teaching<br>methods spawn, but there is little empirical comparison of their<br>distinct efficacies. Teaching is nearly always based on traditions and<br>qualitative opinions. Where can one find an educational science<br>amenable to measurement, test and improvement not just in<br>laboratories, but within class rooms? Unless we can answer this key<br>question, the world’s educational gap is likely to continue widening.<br><br>The goal of the LA School is to critically examine research findings<br>that are potentially relevant to the development, design, and<br>implementation of effective educational practices and to train a new<br>generation of researchers, able to operate at the interface between<br>Education and Science. The first LA School was held in March 2011, in<br>Chile and results went beyond expectations. The second LA School was<br>held last March, in Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina and we had an<br>incredible experience and astonishing results.The most rewarding<br>element was the call for the students to dedicate fullheartedly to<br>their difficult mission. People’s eyes sparkled with knowledge,<br>curiosity and utopia. In 2013 the LA School will gather in Itacaré, a<br>paradisiacal region in Bahia, Brazil. Nonconformists are invited to<br>apply.<br><br>Faculty<br><br>Alan Baddeley; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Anna Nobre; Bruce McCandliss;<br>Cecília Hedin-Pereira; David Klahr; Elisabeth Spelke; Elizabeth<br>Phelps; Frank Keil; Gabriel Mindlin; Ghislaine Dehaene; Henry L.<br>Roediger; Isabel Martins; Jan Born; Jacques Mehler; John T. Bruer;<br>Judy Deloache; Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek; Kathleen Mcdermott; Klaus<br>Zuberbühler; Luca Bonatti; Marcela Pena; Marcus Raichle; Maria Pilar<br>Jimenez-Aleixandre; Mark A. McDaniel; Mariano Sigman; Marina Nespor;<br>Mitchell J. Nathan; Robert Goldstone; Roberta Golinkoff; Sid Strauss;<br>Sidarta Ribeiro; Silvia Bunge, Stanislas Dehaene; Susan Fitzpatrick;<br>Susan Goldin Meadow; Torkel Klingberg, Zach Mainen.<br><br>Sponsors<br><br>The James S. McDonnell Foundation (USA)<br>Brazilian Society for Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC).<br>Instituto do Cérebro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)<br>Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)<br>Laboratorio de Neurociência Integrativa, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)<br>Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, University of Chile (Chile)<br><br>Applications<br>Applications are now open for the third in a series of LA schools<br>aimed at training students in Cognitive and Neural Sciences applied to<br>Education. Applicants should be English-speaking graduate students,<br>postdoctoral fellows or young independent researchers dedicated to<br>exploring the relationships between cognition, brain, learning and<br>education. The LA School has a focus on Latin America, but applicants<br>from all countried are invited to apply. The school will cover all<br>travel, board and lodging expenses for the selected candidates.<br>Applications will be received until August 20, 2012.<br><br>Application procedure<br><br>1 - New candidates<br>Candidates should register at <a href="http://www.laschool4education.com/">http://www.laschool4education.com</a>. They<br>must provide their resume and a letter of intent.<br><br><br>2 - LA School’s alumni<br>We have 5 slots reserved for our precious alumni. Thus we encourage<br>you all to apply. Alumni should register at<br><a href="http://www.laschool4education.com/">http://www.laschool4education.com</a> login in with your username and<br>password. This time, your application requires the submission of a<br>mini paper with data from an ongoing project (3 pages, 1 multipanel<br>figure, 10 references, Font Times New Roman 12). Each selected alumnus<br>will be awarded the opportunity to present a short talk on her/his<br>work.<br><br>Additional information is available at <a href="http://www.laschool4education.com/">www.laschool4education.com</a><br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>-- 3rd LA School Organizing Team</body></html>