Bruno della Chiesa

Bruno della Chiesa (born 7 July 1962) is a linguist of Italian, French and German descent, who describes himself as an "engaged cosmopolitan".[1] He teaches at Harvard University and is considered one of the main founders of educational neuroscience,[2][3][4] is known to have coined the terms "neuromyth" (2002)[5] and "neuro-hijacking" (2013) and has established theories on the "motivational vortex" (2007)[6] and on the “tesseracts in the brain” (2008).[7] He also created the international science fiction festival Utopiales.

  1. ^ Utopiae (2000). Nantes: L’Atalante, p. 188
  2. ^ Illes, J. & B.J. Sahakian (2011) (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. New York: Oxford University Press, p. XXIV
  3. ^ Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2011), Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching. WW Norton & Co.
  4. ^ See Usable Knowledge (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA, March 2009): Beginning in the brain: Pioneering the field of educational neuroscience
  5. ^ See B. della Chiesa et al. (Ed.) (2002): Understanding the Brain - Towards a New Learning Science, Paris: OECD
  6. ^ della Chiesa, B. (2010). Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt… in Die Bedeutung der Sprache – Bildungspolitische Konsequenzen und Maßnahmen. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, pp. 9-29. See also: della Chiesa, B. (2012). Learning languages in a globalising world. In B. della Chiesa, J. Scott & C. Hinton (Eds.), Languages in a Global World. Learning for Better Cultural Understanding. Paris: OECD, 37-51.
  7. ^ della Chiesa, B. (2010), Wanted: Tesseract – One Hypothesis on Languages, Cultures, and Ethics for Mind, Brain, and Education. Mind, Brain and Education, 4(3) September 2010, New York: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 135-148. See also: della Chiesa, B. (2012). "Expansion of our own being": Language learning, cultural belonging and global awareness. In B. della Chiesa, J. Scott & C. Hinton (Eds.), Languages in a Global World. Learning for Better Cultural Understanding. Paris: OECD, 437-461.