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Introduction to Don Tinkler
 

 A brief bio
 
Constructivism Computers and Information Literacy
 
A paper generated from a professional development module commissioned in 1997 by the Department of  Science and Mathematics, University of Melbourne, for inclusion in a CD-ROM titled CLICK! Computers and Learning in Classrooms, K-6, published by Melbourne University Press in May 2000. (Paper re-written September 2000)
 
 
Humanities Core Curriculum   and
Teacher Handbook Social Education for Australian Primary Schools:
A Futures Perspective
 
 The Humanities Core Curriculum chart, developed as a research document 1982 - 1990, provides a seven-year framework of content and experiences, a database of information, and a network of concepts from which students can draw in the future and can use in understanding and coping with their world in the present. 

The Teacher Handbook, Social Education for Australian Primary Schools: A Futures Perspective (1990) incorporates the Humanities Core Curriculum, builds on a "constructivist" theory of learning, raising numbers of curriculum issues and explaining how to generate challenging classroom programs K-6.
 
Social Education for Australian Primary Schools: A Futures Perspective, although published in 1990, remains consistent with the best of present practice in education in 2001.
 

Adding to the Debate on Human Intelligence

 
Paper originally presented at the First National Spirit of Education Forum,
Brama Kumaris World Spiritual University, Baxter, Victoria, Australia, July 1997. (revised September 2000)
Includes an overview of a seven program television series About Learning designed at the request of the National Education Committee of UNICEF Australia in 1984

There's More to Learn about Learning

This paper for the international iNet conference (March 2005) adopts the position that the mind is an emergent property of the activity of the brain and the central nervous system and asks the question: brain science, but what of mind science? It suggests that educators direct more of their attention to the mind in the process of learning; raises the notion of "memes" introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1976 and examines some implications of memes and the new science of memetics for cultural evolution, learning and teaching.

 
 Email contact for Don Tinkler:  < tinkler@hotkey.net.au >
 
 

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