Daniel Yon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1583340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Yon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Yon |
| SIGNATURE | YON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5511-3884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Communicated priors tune the perception of control
Action allows us to shape the world around us. But to act effectively we need to accurately sense what we can and cannot control. Classic theories across cognitive science suppose that this 'sense of agency' is constructed from the sensorimotor signals we experience as we interact with our surroundings. But these sensorimotor signals are inherently ambiguous, and can provide us with a distorted picture of what we can and cannot influence. Here we…
Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving industry in cognitive neuroscience producing computational models of learning from and about other agents. This is a hugely positive development. The tools of computational cognitive neuroscience are rigorous and precise. They have the potential to prise open the black box. However, we argue that, fro…
Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur
We frequently experience feelings of agency over events we do not objectively influence - so-called 'illusions of control'. These illusions have prompted widespread claims that we can be insensitive to objective relationships between actions and outcomes, and instead rely on grandiose beliefs about our abilities. However, these illusory biases could instead arise if we are highly sensitive to action-outcome correlations, but attribute agency when…
Race-Making/Race-Mixing: St. Helena and the South Atlantic World
This paper focuses on the South Atlantic Oceanic World, and the pivotal place of the Island of St. Helena within that world, as both a context and a conceptual tool for thinking about race-making and race-mixing in South Africa. Drawing on various historical ‘snapshots’ from documentary and archival sources on St. Helena, as well as from exploratory fieldwork in South Africa, St. Helena, an Atlantic World of flux and fluidity, is invoked as a con…
Highlights and Overview of the History of Educational Ethnography
In broad brush strokes, this essay identifies and reviews key trends and theoretical orientations that have shaped the field of educational ethnography from the period of its inception to the closing decade of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how the growth of educational ethnography as a subfield within anthropology reflects a growing focus on prescriptive, applied, and reformist research within urban contexts. It maps the transition from …
Urban Portraits of Identity: On the problem of knowing culture and identity in intercultural studies
This paper draws from a larger ethnography that explores questions of culture, race and identity, against a backdrop of globalization and diaspora, among students in a Toronto High School. It constructs a series of 'portraits' of youth from their conversations with the ethnographer. These portraits highlight the fluid and slippery nature of the identities of youth as their identifications shift and as they insist upon being viewed as complex subj…
Pedagogy and the "problem" of difference: On reading community in The Darker Side of Black
This paper examines the responses of two groups of high school students to Isaac Julien's film The Darker Side of Black and theorizes what these responses might suggest for how students imagine and argue for community. It explores the tension that is produced as students argue for community as continuous and stable in the face of discontinuity and difference in the diaspora. The paper raises the possibilities for how pedagogy may occupy the space…
Highlights and Overview of the History of Educational Ethnography
In broad brush strokes, this essay identifies and reviews key trends and theoretical orientations that have shaped the field of educational ethnography from the period of its inception to the closing decade of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how the growth of educational ethnography as a subfield within anthropology reflects a growing focus on prescriptive, applied, and reformist research within urban contexts. It maps the transition from …
Urban Portraits of Identity: On the problem of knowing culture and identity in intercultural studies
This paper draws from a larger ethnography that explores questions of culture, race and identity, against a backdrop of globalization and diaspora, among students in a Toronto High School. It constructs a series of 'portraits' of youth from their conversations with the ethnographer. These portraits highlight the fluid and slippery nature of the identities of youth as their identifications shift and as they insist upon being viewed as complex subj…
Pedagogy and the "problem" of difference: On reading community in The Darker Side of Black
This paper examines the responses of two groups of high school students to Isaac Julien's film The Darker Side of Black and theorizes what these responses might suggest for how students imagine and argue for community. It explores the tension that is produced as students argue for community as continuous and stable in the face of discontinuity and difference in the diaspora. The paper raises the possibilities for how pedagogy may occupy the space…
Race-Making/Race-Mixing: St. Helena and the South Atlantic World
This paper focuses on the South Atlantic Oceanic World, and the pivotal place of the Island of St. Helena within that world, as both a context and a conceptual tool for thinking about race-making and race-mixing in South Africa. Drawing on various historical ‘snapshots’ from documentary and archival sources on St. Helena, as well as from exploratory fieldwork in South Africa, St. Helena, an Atlantic World of flux and fluidity, is invoked as a con…
Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving industry in cognitive neuroscience producing computational models of learning from and about other agents. This is a hugely positive development. The tools of computational cognitive neuroscience are rigorous and precise. They have the potential to prise open the black box. However, we argue that, fro…
Pedagogy and the "problem" of difference: On reading community in The Darker Side of Black
This paper examines the responses of two groups of high school students to Isaac Julien's film The Darker Side of Black and theorizes what these responses might suggest for how students imagine and argue for community. It explores the tension that is produced as students argue for community as continuous and stable in the face of discontinuity and difference in the diaspora. The paper raises the possibilities for how pedagogy may occupy the space…
Urban Portraits of Identity: On the problem of knowing culture and identity in intercultural studies
This paper draws from a larger ethnography that explores questions of culture, race and identity, against a backdrop of globalization and diaspora, among students in a Toronto High School. It constructs a series of 'portraits' of youth from their conversations with the ethnographer. These portraits highlight the fluid and slippery nature of the identities of youth as their identifications shift and as they insist upon being viewed as complex subj…
Highlights and Overview of the History of Educational Ethnography
In broad brush strokes, this essay identifies and reviews key trends and theoretical orientations that have shaped the field of educational ethnography from the period of its inception to the closing decade of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how the growth of educational ethnography as a subfield within anthropology reflects a growing focus on prescriptive, applied, and reformist research within urban contexts. It maps the transition from …
Race-Making/Race-Mixing: St. Helena and the South Atlantic World
This paper focuses on the South Atlantic Oceanic World, and the pivotal place of the Island of St. Helena within that world, as both a context and a conceptual tool for thinking about race-making and race-mixing in South Africa. Drawing on various historical ‘snapshots’ from documentary and archival sources on St. Helena, as well as from exploratory fieldwork in South Africa, St. Helena, an Atlantic World of flux and fluidity, is invoked as a con…
Illusions of control without delusions of grandeur
We frequently experience feelings of agency over events we do not objectively influence - so-called 'illusions of control'. These illusions have prompted widespread claims that we can be insensitive to objective relationships between actions and outcomes, and instead rely on grandiose beliefs about our abilities. However, these illusory biases could instead arise if we are highly sensitive to action-outcome correlations, but attribute agency when…
Social learning in models and minds
After more than a century in which social learning was blackboxed by evolutionary biologists, psychologists and economists, there is now a thriving industry in cognitive neuroscience producing computational models of learning from and about other agents. This is a hugely positive development. The tools of computational cognitive neuroscience are rigorous and precise. They have the potential to prise open the black box. However, we argue that, fro…
Communicated priors tune the perception of control
Action allows us to shape the world around us. But to act effectively we need to accurately sense what we can and cannot control. Classic theories across cognitive science suppose that this 'sense of agency' is constructed from the sensorimotor signals we experience as we interact with our surroundings. But these sensorimotor signals are inherently ambiguous, and can provide us with a distorted picture of what we can and cannot influence. Here we…
Sociology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Control (management) (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (2 works)