Educational Applied Research Division
Taira NAKAJIMA
Associate Professor,Graduate school of Education
Bridging Subjectivity and Objectivity to Explore an Old yet New Way of Learning
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When we acquire a skill or gain an insight, if it proves valuable, we naturally wish to share the method with others so they too can put it into practice. This is perhaps the most fundamental model of teaching and learning. If the skill is swimming, for example, both teacher and learner can demonstrate their technique to each other to confirm it is being performed correctly. But what if the subject is something internal and invisible, like "thinking" or "concentration"? How then can we verify the skill has been acquired? To address this challenge, we seek to connect subjective descriptions using language and physical expressions with objective measurements such as brain activity. Our goal is to discover learning methods that are easy for the practitioner to implement and for others to understand.
