Last update on 02/12/05
-- I am still in the process of transferring my documents and
outside links to this site. Abundance of material, or lack of it,
is not a sign of interest or lack of it, but rather the availability
and plethora of materials on the web and their quality. All topics are
selected within the
broader theme of their relationship to each other -- an integration.
Some effort is made to avoid overly-technical information, without
diluting the contributions of original thinkers. Most of the
information is presented on more than one level of understanding.
This page is for a general audience with varied and specific
interests-- thus journal articles are not always the best introductions
(though many are used). The idea is to map the territory of some
interrelated domains (perhaps not always seen as related), though no
effort is made to chart a course through this territory. (In some
ways this page maps significant aspects of my own intellectual journey
and
interests, though most of my own thinking is left out.) The
objective is to provide at least one link for each category, so that
each visitor to this page can begin the journey of exploration from at
least
one point of embarkation in any domain here.
Eventually this page will
look more like a Table of Contents and the categories will have
secondary pages so the page will not be so big. (It is not yet
well organized.) However, for now,
it is nonetheless a salutary exercise just to read down the entire list
and reflect on the human condition-- with its vast challenges. (Some links are temporary
place-holders. Suggestions and observations
are welcome. I am sure there must be some candidates that should
be included here. Please suggest. My thanks to Bill Huitt for some of these links in psychology, education. His
extraordinary example inspired me to put this page together and this
service he has provided saved me lots of time.)
(Disclaimer/warning: Not all links found on a
"google" FIND page are equally bona fide, nor have they been evaluated
for content validity. Use at your own risk. Best to verify the
accuracy of any information in them from more than one source,
especially if it does not come through an academic publication--albeit
academic research should also be subject to checks for accuracy.
Suggestions for corrections, additions or deletions are welcome.)
"Knowledge is a
single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it."
Society and World Problems
- Segregation, Ethnic Segregation, Genocide
"...the country [United States] is in
the throes of the largest migration in American history...
And
while only a half century ago the country was nearly 90% white, within
the next fifty years there will be no racial majority, and
non-Europeans will actually outnumber whites in the general population
- a demographic shift already appearing in an accelerating number of
institutions and communities. There is no greater challenge
facing our nation than race. ...Evidence of stark inequality
abounds in virtually every economic and social sphere, and too many
members of racial and ethnic minority groups live in a reality where
opportunity remains color-coded. Unattended, this tragedy may well
prove apocalyptic... If we continue to ignore growing
inequalities and divisions, we will become a thoroughly balkanized
society dominated by a declining white minority. History and headlines
worldwide provide ample evidence of the grievous consequences along
that path."
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus.php
- The
Consciousness of World Citizenship (and implications for Race Unity)
--"The
Biggest
Educational Task of All"
-- a paper
presented at Harvard University's Sixth Annual International Forum
(Greg Kagira-Watson)
See update at: Part ONE
and Part
TWO
- War -- PowerPoint
fatalities chart in some major wars (Greg
Kagira-Watson) PDF
version
- Death Tolls for the
Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
- Secondary Wars and
Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
- Refugees
and Internally Displaced Persons (a definition)
- The AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
(8,000 people dying every day)
- AFSC's list
of issues (AFSC-- Amercian Friends Service
Committee)
- The Middle
East (NPR -- National Public
Radio)
- Exponential
Population Growth (World Bank data bank linking to other
online databases)
- example: 50
years ago Africa was 1/3 the population of Europe, by 2050 it will be
three times greater.
- Eradicating Poverty through Justice and Equality -- Reducing the
Gap Between Rich and Poor
- Southern
Poverty Law Center
- Congressional
Hunger Center
- Daily, G., & Ehrlich, P. (1995). Socioeconomic equity: A
critical element in sustainability. Ambio, 24(1).
Retrieved November 2004, from http://dieoff.org/page101.htm.
- Garrett, L. (2003). Gaps between the rich and the poor.
EMBO
Reports, 4. Retrieved November 2004, from
http://emboreports.npgjournals.com/cgi/reprint/4/suppl_1/S15.
- O'Rouke, P. J. (1997, June). Closing the wealth gap.
Presentation at the CATO conference, Shanghai, China. Retrieved
November 2004, from
http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-pjo061897.html.
- Peck, B. (2001). The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. Issues
in Educational Research, 11(2). Retrieved November 2004, from
http://education.curtin.edu.au/iier/iier11/peck.html.
- Sala-i-Martin, X. (2002). The disturbing "rise" of global
income inequality. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic
Research. Retrieved November 2004, from
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8904.pdf.
<>"The
End of Poverty" (Jeffrey D.
Sachs book by the same name. Time
Magazine article -- Official TIME URL --
on Sach's book.)
- National
Sovereignty and the United Nations
- World
Terrorism
- Remaining Nuclear Threats: North
Korea / Terrorists
/ Eliminating
Nuclear Arsenals
- BioTerrorism
- Racial
Equity in Education: How Far has South Africa Come? (Council
on Foreign Relations)
- The
Tsunami Effect on Donor Fatigue See Stephen
Lewis Foundation
- Democracy
- Sustainable
Development
- Waging Peace through
International Outreach, Relationship, Philanthropy and Advocacy
- The
illiteracy crisis in America (Greg
Kagira-Watson)
World
Citizenship
Establishing the Equality
of
Women and Men
Psychology and Health
- History
of psychology -- weaning itself from philosophy and
becoming its own domain (topical highlights)
- Psychological
health and its dependency on the culture, the
environment, parents, etc.
- Recommended
Graduate Training Program in Clinical Psychology
- Youth "at risk"
- Sense
of self and identity -- self-percept, self-concept,
self-esteem
- The
Metaphysics of John Dewey’s Conception of The Self (commentary
on self realization as the moral ideal by Craig Cunningham,
Northeastern Illinois University)
- Sense
of self and identity as related to the groups to which one
belongs
- Psychology of the "other"
- Prejudice and Moral Dilemmas
(Also see >> HERE )
-
Understanding Prejudice -- a Knowledge-Base Essay on prejudice reduction
- Project Implicit--implicit
associations test for determining one's own prejudices
www.yale.edu/implicit/ (Univ.
of Wisconsin review)
- Emotional development (competence)
- Volitional
competence
- Memory
- Summary
Chart on the ANISA Model -- illustrating relationship between
actualization of psychological potentialities and the domains of
knowledge (Greg Kagira-Watson)
- Mind / Body (or
mind / brain) studies (including how psychological health is dependent
on the health of the body)
- Exercise
and psychological health
- Psychosomatic
illness
- Varieties
of religious experience and spiritual conditions
- Altered states and baseline
consciousness
- Selfhood and
Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: Contrasts
With the West (DOC file) also HTML
- The
Politics of Experience
- "Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing the
'facts'. We do not need theories so much as the experience that
is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the
sense of
an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience
the 'evidence'. We can see other
people’s behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people
to
insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person’s
experience…"
- Transcendental
experience
- Religious
Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy: East
Meets West
-
Epistemological
Psychology (Edmund Husserl)
- Psychotherapy
East and West
- Yoga
and meditation
- Identifying
psychophysiological risk for psychopathology: substance abuse and
schizophrenia
- The
ethnopharmacological study of psychoactive drugs
- The
Guru Chela relationship -- the
possibility of a therapeutic paradigm
- Psychological Science in Cultural Context (Draft
copy for American Psychologist, 1996, 51,
496-503.)
- Interview with
Larry Dossey, M.D., former head of the Office of
Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH)
- Alternative Medicine and Unconventional
Methods complementary to the Sciences of Heath and Healing
- Full text of the landmark study by the Office of
Technology Assessment
of the U.S. Congress - Unconventional Cancer Treatments, which
Michael
Lerner participated on as principal consultant. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1990/9044.html
-- (at Princeton University)
- Example
of Heath Education (Grade 6)-
- The
Science of Healthy Behavior (an EDC
report series)
- Book review from New England Journal of Medicine: NEJM --
Choices
in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional ...
Book Review from The New England Journal of
Medicine -- Choices in Healing: Integrating
the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches
to Cancer. ... content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/331/18/1244
- Similar pages
Education, Psychology and Learning
- 14
Chapters of Vygotsky's Investigation into the Historical Meaning of the
Crisis in
Psychology (as
precipitated by practitioners)
- Multiple
Intelligences (Howard
Gardner)
- Localization,
modularity and the rewiring of the brain
- Educational
research: Competencies for analysis and application (6th ed.).
Prentice Hall. Recommends this site as a source of educational links.
- Educational
Psychology from The Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide
- Educational
Psychology: General Weblinks from McGraw-Hill
- Educational
Psychology & Pedagogy: Donny Lee, Harding University
- Class
Resources from Miami University Department of Educational Psychology
- Resources
and References for LRO880, University of Pretoria
- Special
Education Resources/Information from The Teachers' Nook by Shawn
Marsh
- Introduction to
Psychology: The Free University Project
- Psychology:
from NatureIQ
- RX for Piaget's
Complaint: A Science of Education
- A Summary
Statement on the ANISA Model
- Summary
Chart on the ANISA Model (Greg Kagira-Watson)
- Using Educational Principles from
Psychology and the World's Religions to Improve Education --
A Paper Presented at the Ninth International Literacy
and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Beijing, China,
July 16-20, 2002 (Rodney Clarken, School of Education,
Northern Michigan University.
- A
new possibility
for literacy (Greg Kagira-Watson)
- The
Brain Sciences, in relationship to
lanaguage acquisiton and literacy
- Language acquisition and literacy in deaf
children -- a proposal for Nigeria (Greg
Kagira-Watson)
- The
Theory of Formative Causation and the Morphogenetic
Process of Resonance in Memory and
Learning (Rupert Sheldrake)
- String
Theory: Putting together the Theory of Relativity with Quantum Mechanics
(an interview with Brian Greene)
- The
Collective Unconscious and the Collective Conscious
- "I believe it will seem very strange to the historian of the
future, that a literal-minded generation began to accept the actuality
of a 'collective unconscious' before it could even admit the
possibility of a 'collective conscious' -- in the shape of the
phenomenal world." -- Owen Barfield
- The Education Resources
Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s
premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
- What is ERICDigests.org?
-- The ERIC Clearinghouse system was eliminated in 2003. ERIC was massively
reorganized... For information on these changes, see
http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm )
Systems
Thinking, Evolutionary Systems, and the Sciences of Complexity:
- What are
Cybernetics and Systems Science?
- The nature
of complex, adaptive, self-regulating systems that we might call
"cybernetic"
- Feedback
- Biofeedback
and psychophysiological health
- History of
Cybernetics and Systems Science
- The Sciences
of Complexity ("complex
adaptive systems")
- Self-organization
Theory
- What is
complexity?
- A
review of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the
Learning
Organization (Peter
Senge)
- The
Management Theory of MIT Professor Chris Argyris
- Erwin Laszlo (Co-founder, Club
of Rome):
- Global
Science curriculum inspired by Laszlo's thinking
-
The Creative Learning Exchange (CLE)—
facilitates communication among teachers and
schools and to create a network of schools using systems education.
- A Brief Introduction to "Critical
Systems Thinking for Professionals & Citizens" by Werner Ulrich
(Also in
PDF )
- The
Genesis of Complexity (To appear in a
text edited by Alfonso Montuori in the series, Advances in Systems
Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
- The Growth
of Complexity
- "Complexity":
an important new framework for understanding warfare?
- Systems
Science: Creating Transdisciplinary knowledge for conscious evolution
(W.V. van Huyssteen (Ed.) Encyclopedia
of Science and Religion. NY: Macmillan)
- World-view
and book outline various meanings of worldviews (World
views: from integration to fragmentation)
- Developmental Worldview (PDF) (Greg
Kagira-Watson, based on a synthesis of
two articles by R. & H. Danesh and private conversations
with the authors.)
- History of
Evolution
- Evolutionary
Theory / Darwinian Evolution
- Natural Selection
- Evolutionary
Cybernetics
- Evolutionary
Epistemology
- Evolutionary
Philosophy necessary to explain the Development of Human
Society: Cultural and Biological Evolution
- The Social
Superorganism and its Global Brain
- Gaia
hypothesis or philosophy and
the first
scientific form of the idea
- Evolutionary
Ethics
- Cybernetic
philosophy and Metasystem Transition Theory (MSTT)
- The
Human Use of Human Beings (Norbert Wiener, who coined the term
"cybernetics")
- Self-Organizing
Universe: Scientific and Human
Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution
- Evolutionary
Models and Artificial Life / Intelligence
- Great
Thinkers and Visionaries
- Autopoiesis
Theory / Biology of
cognition / Neurophenomenology
(Francisco Varela)
- The
Systems' View of Life (Fritjof
Capra)
- Review of
the movie: MINDWALK based on Capra's book Turning Point (Movie
stars Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, and John Heard)
- How
do we think in terms of wholes?
(Buckminster Fuller)
- Mind and
Nature and Ecology
of Mind (Gregory Bateson)
- Gregory
Bateson on deutero-learning and double
bind: A brief conceptual history by Max Visser (requires university
affiliation to download: another
link)
- A
few brief comments at Spike Hall's
weblog on deutero-learning (learning to learn) with some good
links: Learning to Learn (LTL) cited by the US Department of
Education.
- Evolutionary
Science applied to human social
systems and The Conscious Universe TEXT
(Ervin Laszlo)
- The
Universe as
a Hologram ("the whole in every part") -- Neurophysiologist
Karl Pribram
- Web
dictionary of
Cybernetics and Systems
- "Systems
Science and
Cybernetics" -- a UNESCO EOLSS book of articles by leading thinkers
- Edited by : Francisco Parra-Luna,
Departamento de Sociologia I,
Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain
- The
Macroscope: A book on the systems approach to learning and problem
solving
Philosophy
Science and Religion
- http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9253
(Charles
Townes Wins 2005 Templeton Prize)
- http://www.templeton.org/milestones/
(program
launched in 2003 at the University of California Santa Barbara and
funded by the John Templeton Foundation)
- http://www.templeton.org/science_and_religion/index.asp
- http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2002/0001664446&EDATE=
- http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/
- http://www.stnews.org/
- http://www.whatthebleep.com/scientists/
- http://michaelacorey.com/biblio.html
- Systems
Science: Creating Transdisciplinary knowledge for conscious evolution
(W.V. van Huyssteen (Ed.) Encyclopedia
of Science and Religion. NY: Macmillan)
- The Encyclopedia
of Science and Religion
- Origins -- a
PBS series with physicist/host Neil deGrasse Tyson (A number of
religious themes are expressed, with some scientific
theorists expressing religious belief as complementary to their
science.) Own
the video and the book.
"Origins:
Back to the Beginning" explores how the colossal, mind-boggling
forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds to
emerge.
The clues begin with a race among scientists to capture lingering
echoes of the
big bang's ferocious energy in a microwave "whisper" from deep
space.
- The Elegant
Universe /
The Fabric of Time (Brian Greene
-- listen to
interview on NPR program Fresh Air. Go to the 12 minute mark.)
- The
Lab, the Temple, and The Market Chapter
4: Promoting a
Discourse on Science, Religion, and
Development
- Physicist
Stephen Hawking's Meditation on "The Beginning"--
a brief commentary on science and religion by Greg
Kagira-Watson)
- Recent discoveries about the origins of the universe
- Relating the
Physics and Religion of David
Bohm
- Evolution
versus
Creationism: Ontogeny
and phylogeny (The
"Creationist" point of view)
- Ethics and
morality in Science
- Living
at The Monastery of Christ in the Desert and studying Teilhard
de Chardin
- The
Varieties of Religious Experience
- William
James' lecture on the Pragmatism of Religion and the Settling of
Metaphysical Disputes
- How
shall we determine whether religion has been the cause of human
advancement or retrogression?
- To
the
World's Religious Leaders -- "...If
religious leadership is
to rise to the challenge that this latter perception represents, such
response must begin by acknowledging that religion and science are the
two indispensable knowledge systems through which the potentialities of
consciousness develop. Far from being in conflict with one another,
these fundamental modes of the mind's exploration of reality are
mutually dependent and have been most productive in those rare but
happy periods of history when their complementary nature has been
recognized and they have been able to work together... It is
surely unnecessary to cite in detail the horrors being visited upon
hapless populations today by outbursts of fanaticism that shame the
name of religion. Nor is the phenomenon a recent one....
To this accounting must be
added a betrayal of the life of the mind which, more than any other
factor, has robbed religion of the capacity it inherently possesses to
play a decisive role in the shaping of world affairs. Locked into
preoccupation with agendas that disperse and vitiate human energies,
religious institutions have too often been the chief agents in
discouraging exploration of reality and the exercise of those
intellectual faculties that distinguish humankind. Denunciations of
materialism or terrorism are of no real assistance in coping with the
contemporary moral crisis if they do not begin by addressing candidly
the failure of responsibility that has left believing masses exposed
and vulnerable to these influences.
Such reflections, however
painful, are less an indictment of organized religion than a reminder
of the unique power it represents. Religion, as we are all aware,
reaches to the roots of motivation. When it has been faithful to the
spirit and example of the transcendent Figures who gave the world its
great belief systems, it has awakened in whole populations capacities
to love, to forgive, to create, to dare greatly, to overcome prejudice,
to sacrifice for the common good and to discipline the impulses of
animal instinct. Unquestionably, the seminal force in the civilizing of
human nature has been the influence of the succession of these
Manifestations of the Divine that extends back to the dawn of recorded
history." (in
other languages)