Geoff Vaughan
@geoffv.bsky.social
PhD (3rd year) researching Cognitive/Cultural Transitions. Memory Palaces. Plus, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Bacon, Japanese art, The Cure: a daily dose. Reading: Eliot, The Mill on the Floss.
This was my first (proper) Memory & Metacognition Updates post after the summer: firth.substack.com/p/welcome-ba...
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Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #85
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(聊齋志異), written by Pu Songling during the Qing Dynasty, is a collection of 491 supernatural tales featuring fox spirits, ghosts, and demons. Pu's narratives show more compassion for non-human entities than humans and satirize social issues of his time. 1/2
The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean-François Millet 1856-60 Oil on Panel (Walter Art Museum, Baltimore)
It’s fair to say that Picasso showed some early promise ~ here’s Picador, his first oil painting. at age 8 ■ his study of a torso, at age 10 ■ and, at age 14, a portrait of his mother
"The epistemological grounding of human knowledge is human operation as a living system." —Humberto Maturana
'Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?' The History of Distributed Cognition Project at Edinburgh University. www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/welcome-hdc
Welcome to HDC | History of Distributed Cognition
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In Japan, Obon is a traditional Buddhist festival to remember and honor the spirits of ancestors held each summer, beginning today. It is believed that the spirits of the dead visit their living relatives during this time. Music, dancing and food are offered to entertain the... #JapaneseFolklore 1/2
This book is cogsci. Just not classical cognitivism. Not what's become popular on EduSocialMedia. It's enactivist cogsci. A different view of cognition enacted in my classroom. #UKEd #EduSky #SciTeachUK
Christian Moore-Anderson@cmooreanderson.eurosky.social · 2y agoLaying down a path in (biology) teaching. This is how to provoke understanding in practical detail. How to teach in adaptive dialogue & diagrams. How to see with systems theory & variation theory. This is a new way of being & doing. This is a new model. t.ly/sx257 #UKEd #SciTeachingUK #EduSky
The "Phoenix" Fountain pen for the revival of Wajima matsuzawakobo.com/phoenix_en/ By adding this masterpiece, which we create with all our heart and soul, to your fountain pen collection, you will be supporting the revival of the Wajima urushi industry. #fountainpen #wajima
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (2nd version) https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/three-studies-for-figures-at-the-base-of-a-crucifixion-2nd-version-1944
The reception set created by Japanese urushi artist Gonroku Matsuda in 1932 was priced at 5 million yen in Japan, but after being purchased by a foreigner and sold in Marseille, it rose to 12.5 million yen, and eventually, the Guimet Museum acquired it for 50 million yen😅
Study for a portrait of John Edwards https://www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/study-for-a-portrait-of-john-edwards-1989-0
This fountain pen is inspired by the elegant folding screen paintings of Sakai Hōitsu, a painter from the Edo period. The delicate brushwork is precisely recreated using urushi. Our workshop can faithfully recreate any painting by hand using urushi. #fountainpen
Cross-legged Figure with Arms Raised, No. 2 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bacon-cross-legged-figure-with-arms-raised-no-2-t07385
Good Day! St Martin in the Field by George Scharf c. 1828 Watercolour, over graphite, on grey paper (British Museum) Looking west along Church Lane with the church of St Martin's in the Fields in the distance, a bookshop in the right foreground, a man reading on the steps.
An idiot’s guide to the philosophy of education: Part 2 othmarstrombone.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/a...
An idiot’s guide to the philosophy of education: Part 2
This is the second in a series of blogs on the key philosophers of education. Part 1 can be found here. Michel de Montaigne Whilst sounding like she might be a woman, Michel de Montaigne is actually a...
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An idiot’s guide to the philosophy of education: Part 1 othmarstrombone.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/a...
An idiot’s guide to the philosophy of education: Part 1
Socrates Socrates was a brilliant man. Not only is he considered the father of Western philosophy, he was also a great teacher and, what's more, a great teacher trainer. One of Socrates' most successf...
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Thanks for following @clairestoneman.bsky.social Appreciated. I think you wrote a blog years back about Pep Guardiola and education? I have been meaning to write a response to that for a while now!
One thing I have to try really hard at doing is to stop falling into 'opinion' when studying. It is really hard to keep it factual. But it is what is needed. My opinions have to wait.
My first ever blogpost - 10 years ago - The Bridge Over the Reading Gap. Interesting to read and consider that things haven’t changed that much 😏 thinkingreadingwritings.wpcomstaging.com/2014/02/08/t...
The Bridge Over The Reading Gap
How can secondary schools ensure that all students read well? The cost of illiteracy in the UK has been estimated at £81 billion per annum. There are, according to the National Literacy Trust, six …
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This could be an eye-opening paper for those interested in #cogsci in education. By the brilliant Francisco Varela (1992): "Whence perceptual meaning: A Cartography of Current Ideas" It compares different "ways of seeing" cognition within cogsci #EduSky #UKEd link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Whence Perceptual Meaning? A Cartography of Current Ideas
This essay was written for the purpose of providing a minimal common ground for discussion. It is, of necessity, an ambitious attempt to give a concise account of the various current ideas on the orig...
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Miss this genius. Too long. www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/raymon...
Raymond Carver | Poetry Foundation
Poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver was born in the logging town of Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. He was married and the father of two before he was 20, and he held a n...
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