Mark Bracher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3869155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Bracher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracher |
| SIGNATURE | BRACHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Educating for Wisdom through Literary Study
In response to an urgent need for better decision making in the public sphere, this article presents a method by which literary study can cultivate wisdom, defined as the ability to respond to problems with courses of action that maximize flourishing and minimize harm for all parties, both now and in the future. Drawing on the latest evidence-based learning principles, the article explains the pedagogical strategies and practices by which four wi…
Foundations of a Wisdom-Cultivating Pedagogy: Developing Systems Thinking across the University Disciplines
Efforts to educate for wisdom are sorely needed in order to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, as explained by philosopher Nicholas Maxwell and psychologist Robert Sternberg, among others. This paper explains that the handful of wisdom pedagogies that have been put forward to date, however, are inadequate for developing the sort of wisdom that can solve our major problems, because they fail to identify and target for development four cognit…
Can-and Should-Literary Study Develop Moral Character and Advance Social Justice? Answers from Cognitive Science
Drawing on empirical studies, the article argues that developing moral character and advancing social justice through literary study is both eminently feasible and profoundly ethical, and that claims to the contrary are based on faulty notions of the psychological bases of morality and justice. The article explains how certain literary texts together with certain pedagogical practices can achieve these ends by training students to recognize two k…
Social Symptoms of Identity Needs: Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems, and What to Do About It
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means.
Social Symptoms of Identity Needs: Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to do About It
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means
The Next Step for APCS: Organizing Social Action Task Forces
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation
Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for dev
Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Lacan, discourse, and social change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Psychoanalysis and Social Change
Aspects of Family Formation in Canada
La fécondité est en déclin au Canada. Nous tentons d'expliquer ce changement, et d'en dégager les implications pour la formulation de politiques. Nous faisons la critique des études canadiennes récemment publiées sur la question en les situant par rapport à une adaptation du cadre de référence Davis et Blake. Ceci nous permet de formuler des hypothèses relatives à deux niveaux dont la distinction est implicite dans le cadre de référence: (1) le n…
Can-and Should-Literary Study Develop Moral Character and Advance Social Justice? Answers from Cognitive Science
Drawing on empirical studies, the article argues that developing moral character and advancing social justice through literary study is both eminently feasible and profoundly ethical, and that claims to the contrary are based on faulty notions of the psychological bases of morality and justice. The article explains how certain literary texts together with certain pedagogical practices can achieve these ends by training students to recognize two k…
The Next Step for APCS: Organizing Social Action Task Forces
Psychoanalysis and Social Change
Aspects of Family Formation in Canada
La fécondité est en déclin au Canada. Nous tentons d'expliquer ce changement, et d'en dégager les implications pour la formulation de politiques. Nous faisons la critique des études canadiennes récemment publiées sur la question en les situant par rapport à une adaptation du cadre de référence Davis et Blake. Ceci nous permet de formuler des hypothèses relatives à deux niveaux dont la distinction est implicite dans le cadre de référence: (1) le n…
Psychoanalysis and Social Change
Lacan, discourse, and social change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation
Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for dev
The Next Step for APCS: Organizing Social Action Task Forces
Social Symptoms of Identity Needs: Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems and What to do About It
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means
Social Symptoms of Identity Needs: Why We Have Failed to Solve Our Social Problems, and What to Do About It
Explains how our major social problems, including crime, violence, terrorism, war, substance abuse, and prejudice, are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self. It locates the root causes of these social problems and counterproductive responses in certain identity-damaging social and cultural phenomena that force identity to defend and maintain itself by socially harmful means.
Can-and Should-Literary Study Develop Moral Character and Advance Social Justice? Answers from Cognitive Science
Drawing on empirical studies, the article argues that developing moral character and advancing social justice through literary study is both eminently feasible and profoundly ethical, and that claims to the contrary are based on faulty notions of the psychological bases of morality and justice. The article explains how certain literary texts together with certain pedagogical practices can achieve these ends by training students to recognize two k…
Foundations of a Wisdom-Cultivating Pedagogy: Developing Systems Thinking across the University Disciplines
Efforts to educate for wisdom are sorely needed in order to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, as explained by philosopher Nicholas Maxwell and psychologist Robert Sternberg, among others. This paper explains that the handful of wisdom pedagogies that have been put forward to date, however, are inadequate for developing the sort of wisdom that can solve our major problems, because they fail to identify and target for development four cognit…
Educating for Wisdom through Literary Study
In response to an urgent need for better decision making in the public sphere, this article presents a method by which literary study can cultivate wisdom, defined as the ability to respond to problems with courses of action that maximize flourishing and minimize harm for all parties, both now and in the future. Drawing on the latest evidence-based learning principles, the article explains the pedagogical strategies and practices by which four wi…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (2 works) · Art (2 works)