We subscribe to the view, expressed by Maturana and others, that satisfying experience of understanding does not result from invoking objectivity, the truth, or compelling argument, to achieve agreement by the force of reason, nor from a process of informative exchange, but from some other qualities, to be elusive and ...

| http://www.pnc.com.au/~lfell{dance.pdf

Biografie a rozhovory s H. von Foestrem.

| Heinz v. Foerster

Most likely, everything that could be said about Warren McCulloch has been said already and, most likely, everything that McCulloch ever said, had never been said before. What to say now about Warren McCulloch and what he did say. I am most grateful to Seymour Papert. who concluded his introduction ...

| Metaphysics of an experimental epistemologist

Draw a distinction!

I am sure you remember the plain citizen Jourdain in Moliere’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme who, nouveau riche, travels in the sophisticated circles of the French aristocracy, and who is eager to learn. On one occasion with his new friends they speak about poetry and prose, and Jourdain discovers to his amazement ...

| PŘEKLAD

Ladies and gentlemen—As you may remember, I opened my remarks at earlier conferences of our Society with theorems which, owing to the generosity of Stafford Beer, have been called “Heinz von Foerster’s Theorem Number One and Number Two”. This all is now history. However, building on a tradition of two ...

Kids’ Skills is an innovative way of helping children aged three and up to overcome emotional and behavioural problems. This book brings the method alive. It illustrates, with stories from around the world, how Kids’ Skills can be used in a variety of settings to solve a wide range of ...

| PŘEKLAD a PREZENTACE

Tento článek se snaží zkráceně představit zen-buddhismus z pohledu psychoterapie a nalézt odezvy a ekvivalenty zen-buddhistického myšlení především v západních terapeutických systémech. Dále se pokouší popsat psychoterapeutický přístup, nazývaný ‚zen terapie‘, najít podobnosti i rozdíly tohoto směru s některými známými ‚západními‘ školami a popsat zen-terapii z hlediska obecných procesů ...

Recent research on young children’s cognitive development supports the viability of a neoconstructivist model of learning. These new approaches support a bottom-up account of knowledge acquisition that incorporates many constructivist principles and does not support top- down nativist models.

Using a consistently constructivist approach, the formation of prejudices, their role in identity, and their resultant resilience are examined. Next, the strategies which may be used to persuade people to change such constructs are considered. For the person who owns the prejudice these amount to experiences which invite reconsideration of ...