A neuropragmatist framework for childhood education
integrating pragmatism and neuroscience to actualize article 29 of the un child convention
pp. 215-239
Abstract
A 9-year-old Swedish girl, Milla Martin, was watching TV with her mother when she saw a film about starving African children. She became very sad and angry and asked, "Why don't we do something to help these children?" Together with some other children, Milla and her mother decided to bake cakes and sell them in order to collect money to support the starving African children. Their responsible social action inspired other children and youth in Sweden who did the same thing. They succeeded in collecting hundreds of thousands of Swedish kroner for this human cause. As a result, Milla Martin was chosen as one of the few persons nominated as "Swedish heroes of the year." Consequently in 2011, on a popular nationwide TV program involving the Swedish prime minister, she received her prize: travelling with her family to Tanzania in a 'study-travel" to find out how her "cake-baking-movement" could help these less fortunate children.1
Publication details
Published in:
Solymosi Tibor, Shook John (2014) Neuroscience, neurophilosophy and pragmatism: brains at work with the world. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 215-239
Full citation:
Moula Alireza, Puddephatt Antony J., Mohseni Simin (2014) „A neuropragmatist framework for childhood education: integrating pragmatism and neuroscience to actualize article 29 of the un child convention“, In: T. Solymosi & J. Shook (eds.), Neuroscience, neurophilosophy and pragmatism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 215–239.