Binding: Paperback
Description: An exhilarating genre - bending exploration of curiosity's powerful capacity to connect ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating genre - bending book what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks the weaving concepts the knitting of ideas and the thatching of knowledge systems the networks the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge and it connects knowers themselves both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett identical twins who write that their book represents the thought of one mind and two bodies harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science Victorian poetry and nature essays as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity the busybody who collects stories creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter who hunts down secrets or discoveries creating tight networks; and the dancer who takes leaps of creative imagination creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity - centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone's curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes inviting readers to participate to be curious with the book and not simply about it.
Title: Curious Minds The Power Of Connection
Author(s): Bassett Dani S.
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262547147
Pages: 312 Pages, 29 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Psychology