Innovation in Language Education: Innovation Update

October 28, 2004

Innovation Update

I'm really feeling particularly inspired this week by the work of Robert Logan. A physicist at the University of Toronto, Logan is interested in systems theory and the evolution of language. How's that for transdisciplinarity?

I'll post my powerpoint presentation here on my blog portfolio after I do the presentation in class tomorrow night. In the meantime, I want to add a couple comments about Logan's work that didn't make it into my powerpoint.

Logan says that "language is the link which united all the activities of human enterprise."

Also, Logan suggests that "language and conceptual thought are dynamically linked parts of a dynamically cognitive system, the extended mind which provides an environment for their mutual development." Logan traces the development of the extended mind through the evolution of language.

How this all applies to innovation is that innovation is both language and conceptual thought. I think I need to let that thought settle for awhile.

Posted by chri1010 at October 28, 2004 1:47 AM

Comments

Thanks for your generous remarks re my work. Where can I find your powerpoint presentation that you allude to?

Bob Logan

Posted by: Bob Logan at March 2, 2005 12:59 PM

Well, I guess I didn't post it yet, did I? I'll get it posted soon! Thanks for the reminder.

Posted by: Laurene at March 4, 2005 2:23 PM

Dear sir or madam,

I will be very glad to hear the events on
innovations at your university. What kinds of
studies are you doing in order to develop your
studies? I also want to see the power point
presentation which you are talking about.Thanks
for giving an opportunity to read this
information.Hope to stay in touch.
Sincerely yours,
instructor of English
OZLEM YAGCIOGLU
DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
MODERN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT
(I also teach English courses in the Prep Classes Department)

Posted by: OZLEM YAGCIOGLU at July 10, 2005 6:21 AM

Thnx to all.

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Posted by: biagra at August 1, 2007 6:32 PM

Laurene - fyi my book The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture has been published by the University of Toronto Press.

Bob Logan

Posted by: robert k. logan at February 29, 2008 7:49 AM