[Eeglablist] The 3rd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences

[Arnaud Delorme]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The 3rd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences
Itacaré, Bahia, Brasil
04-16 March, 2013
http://www.laschool4education.com

Background
We live in the great cognitive acceleration of the post-computer era,
at the dawn of a world wide web of unprecedented possibilities.
However, as knowledge undergoes explosive accumulation, more grows the
intellectual distance between rich and poor. Measures of educational
quality show that all Latin American countries, with the notable
exception of Cuba, are placed far away from the leaders in Europe,
USA, Israel, Japan and Austrália, while African countries lie in the
lowest end of the ranks. Even within developed countries, educational
unequality is starking. Offering equal educational opportunity for
children of the entire world will require a wise investment of
resources in the most critical aspects of education, so as to promote
the social comeback that only knowledge provides among the offspring
of culturally deprived parents.

Modern societies increasingly demand education based on scientific
evidence. We must thus work towards applying what we know about human
cognition to the classroom practice. The Latin American School for
Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences (LA School ) is the result of
a meeting that took place in Santiago de Chile in 2007. This meeting
brought together scientists interested in the Brain/Education Barrier
and led to the Santiago Declaration, which you are kindly invited to
read at http://www.jsmf.org/santiagodeclaration/

Aims

The LA School is based on the observation that schools teach science,
math and language in quite nonscientific ways. Different teaching
methods spawn, but there is little empirical comparison of their
distinct efficacies. Teaching is nearly always based on traditions and
qualitative opinions. Where can one find an educational science
amenable to measurement, test and improvement not just in
laboratories, but within class rooms? Unless we can answer this key
question, the world’s educational gap is likely to continue widening.

The goal of the LA School is to critically examine research findings
that are potentially relevant to the development, design, and
implementation of effective educational practices and to train a new
generation of researchers, able to operate at the interface between
Education and Science. The first LA School was held in March 2011, in
Chile and results went beyond expectations. The second LA School was
held last March, in Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina and we had an
incredible experience and astonishing results.The most rewarding
element was the call for the students to dedicate fullheartedly to
their difficult mission. People’s eyes sparkled with knowledge,
curiosity and utopia. In 2013 the LA School will gather in Itacaré, a
paradisiacal region in Bahia, Brazil. Nonconformists are invited to
apply.

Faculty

Alan Baddeley; Andrew N. Meltzoff; Anna Nobre; Bruce McCandliss;
Cecília Hedin-Pereira; David Klahr; Elisabeth Spelke; Elizabeth
Phelps; Frank Keil; Gabriel Mindlin; Ghislaine Dehaene; Henry L.
Roediger; Isabel Martins; Jan Born; Jacques Mehler; John T. Bruer;
Judy Deloache; Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek; Kathleen Mcdermott; Klaus
Zuberbühler; Luca Bonatti; Marcela Pena; Marcus Raichle; Maria Pilar
Jimenez-Aleixandre; Mark A. McDaniel; Mariano Sigman; Marina Nespor;
Mitchell J. Nathan; Robert Goldstone; Roberta Golinkoff; Sid Strauss;
Sidarta Ribeiro; Silvia Bunge, Stanislas Dehaene; Susan Fitzpatrick;
Susan Goldin Meadow; Torkel Klingberg, Zach Mainen.

Sponsors

The James S. McDonnell Foundation (USA)
Brazilian Society for Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC).
Instituto do Cérebro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)
Laboratorio de Neurociência Integrativa, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación, University of Chile (Chile)

Applications
Applications are now open for the third in a series of LA schools
aimed at training students in Cognitive and Neural Sciences applied to
Education. Applicants should be English-speaking graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows or young independent researchers dedicated to
exploring the relationships between cognition, brain, learning and
education. The LA School has a focus on Latin America, but applicants
from all countried are invited to apply. The school will cover all
travel, board and lodging expenses for the selected candidates.
Applications will be received until August 20, 2012.

Application procedure

1 - New candidates
Candidates should register at http://www.laschool4education.com. They
must provide their resume and a letter of intent.


2 - LA School’s alumni
We have 5 slots reserved for our precious alumni. Thus we encourage
you all to apply. Alumni should register at
http://www.laschool4education.com login in with your username and
password. This time, your application requires the submission of a
mini paper with data from an ongoing project (3 pages, 1 multipanel
figure, 10 references, Font Times New Roman 12). Each selected alumnus
will be awarded the opportunity to present a short talk on her/his
work.

Additional information is available at www.laschool4education.com

Sincerely,

-- 3rd LA School Organizing Team
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