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Lecture Notes

WEEK # TOPICS NOTES
1

Class meeting 1 - Introduction and overview

Working groups (PDF)

Affect effect (PDF)

Threefold scheme (JPEG)

Developmental schemes (PDF)

 (PDF)
2

Class meeting 2 - Human systems

ZAAMM part I

 (PDF)
3

Class meeting 3 - Field trip

ZAAMM part II

 (PDF)
4

Class meeting 4 - Learning from experience

 (PDF)
5

Class meeting 5 - Wrapping-up ZAAMM

Keep going in ZAAMM thru part IV

 (PDF)
6

Class meeting 6 - What is quality in education?

 (PDF)
7

Class meeting 7 - Problématique du changement I

Sustainable paradigms lost and regained
What are "Crises?"

What is a "Scientific Revolution?"

Changing beliefs, values & practices in science and society

 (PDF)
8

Class meeting 8 - The neuropsychology of affect

The emotional brain and the embodiment of feelings

 (PDF)
9

Class meeting 9 - Psychosurgery: the science of violence and vice versa?

 (PDF)
10

Class meeting 10 - Ethics of/in science

 (PDF)
11

Class meeting 11 - "Sustainability" as a worldview, valuesystem, and lifestyle what does it have to do with affect?

 (PDF)
12

Class meeting 12 - Problématique du changement II

Is a paradigm shift happening?

 (PDF)
13

Class meeting 13 - Term project/paper presentations

Closure discussion

 (PDF)