What were you thinking?: Recent Episodes

Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education

"What were you thinking" is produced by the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education (IACE). Our mission is to provide free access to cutting-edge resources on better thinking and learning - especially to parents and educators in developing countries and marginal groups.

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In this podcast Dr WP Wahl from the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education talks with Daniela Zamboni about the Mediation of Goal Seeking, Goal Setting and Goal Achieving Behaviour.  This podcast is part of a series of podcasts focusing on Feuerstein's Mediated Learning parameters.

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In this podcast Dr WP Wahl - from the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education - has an interview with Diane Bourke about the Mediation of the Feeling of Belonging.  This podcast forms part of a series of podcasts focusing on Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience.

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Listen to the next podcast in our series on Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience.  In this conversation Dr WP Wahl, from the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education, talks to Livia Wong on the Mediation of the Awareness of the Human Being as a Changing Entity.

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Dr WP Wahl from the Institute for the Advancement in Cognitive Education (IACE) has an interview with Livia Wong on the Mediation of Challenge: The Search for Novelty and Complexity.  This podcast forms part of the current season of IACE podcasts focusing on Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Parameters.

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Listen to the next podcast in the series on Feuerstein's MLE parameters.  In this podcast Dr WP Wahl has an interview with Fleur Durbach and Anton Kritzinger about the Mediation of Self-Regulation and Control of Behaviour.

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In this podcast Dr WP Wahl interviews Dr Jeanne Zehr (from the Mind Cap Centre in Fort Wayne, Indiana) about the Mediation of a Feeling of Competence.  This is the fifth podcast focusing on the parameters of Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience.

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In this podcast, Dr WP Wahl from the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education, has a fascinating conversation with Dr James Kinard from Rigorous Mathematical Thinking (RMT) laboratory.  They discuss how the Mediation of Meaning (as a distinct parameter of Feuerstein's theory on Mediated Learning Experience) could enhance better thinking and learning in the classroom.

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In this episode Dr WP Wahl interviews Prof Trevor Moodley and Lilian Lomofsky.  They discuss the mediation of transcendence as a distinct parameter of Feuerstein's theory on mediated learning experience.  In this conversation they discuss how educators can use the mediation of transcendence to enhance better thinking and learning in the classroom.

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In this podcast episode Dr WP Wahl interviews Dr Gwendolyn Kindard from the RMT Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois.  In their conversation they focus on Intentionality and Reciprocity as the first parameter of Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience.  A specific emphasis is placed on how to apply Intentionality and Reciprocity in the context of a classroom.

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Dr WP Wahl from the Institute for the Advancement of Cognitive Education interviews Alison Scott, Lauren Davis and Miriam Wilder from the Bellavista School in Johannesburg, South Africa.  They discuss why it is crucial for schools and teachers to apply Feuerstein's theory of Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) to enhance better thinking and learning.  Furthermore, they discuss the theoretical underpinnings of MLE and how to apply it in a school context in a developing country.