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Welcome to the UNIVERSITY. RESEARCH ONE Hundreds of millions of dollars for RESEARCH, TEACHING, & SERVICE. UT BUDGET $1.8 BILLION. UT BUDGET $1.8 BILLION. FUNCTION of EDUCATION. Transmission of career skills Transmission of civilization Teaching how to think Liberating the individual
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Welcome to the UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ONE Hundreds of millions of dollars for RESEARCH, TEACHING, & SERVICE
FUNCTION of EDUCATION • Transmission of career skills • Transmission of civilization • Teaching how to think • Liberating the individual • Transmission of ethical standards
HUMAN NEEDS for EDUCATION • PHYSIOLOGICAL(you’re healthy) • SAFETY(you’re safe) • SOCIAL(you’re amongst friends) • ESTEEM (your uniqueness is evident) • SELF-ACTUALIZATION (you are becoming “all you can be” – manifesting your biological fitness)
MEETING NEEDS • PHYSIOLOGICAL (we need to maintain homeostasis and protect the stability of our milieu interiour, we must tolerate, compensate for, or overcome environmental change, dysfunctions and diseases of cells, tissues and organs) • SAFETY (we need to meet challenges to the integrity and stability of the whole organism)
MEETING NEEDS • SOCIAL (we need to be in the company of others for enhanced protection from physical or predatory threats, to locate or produce food, for resource defense, to facilitate the efficiency of division of labor, for a richer learning environment, and for reproduction) • SOCIAL ESTEEM (we need to have our superiority in life‑enhancing attributes the group values recognized, partly because our social group is likely to protect us or our access to needed resources)
MEETING NEEDS • SELF ACTUALIZATION (we need to attain our maximum biological or cultural potential, a state characterized in humans by a unique and ineffable epiphenomenal harmony with one's self and environment)
welcome to BIOLOGY Seeking insight and understanding into the causes and consequences of phenomena that matter to human beings in nature
Integrative (DEEP) BIOLOGY Seeking insight and understanding into the causes and consequences of phenomena that matter to human beings in nature
DEEP BIOLOGYEveryone Wins DEVELOPMENT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION PHYSIOLOGY
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY The changes in organisms from conception to demise
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY The ABIOTIC and BIOTIC contexts in which organisms are conceived and endeavor to meet their needs.
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY The changes in organisms between generations
PHYSIOLOGY The DYNAMIC BALANCE between the interacting systems that mainatin our stability as we and our environments change
PHYSIOLOGY The DYNAMIC BALANCE between the interacting systems that mainatin our stability as we and our environments change
How do YOU learn? How do you KNOW things? DIVERSITY of RESEACH, SCHOLARSHIP, CREATIVE ACTIVITY = DIVERSITY OF PERSONALITIES Everyone uses more-or-less of each of these ways of learning.
DEEP SCIENCE? • DEVELOPMENT (“The Scientist in the Crib” – Gopnik 1999) • ECOLOGY (enables or impairs the acquisition of scientific knowledge with which to cope with stresses of a changing environment”) • EVOLUTION(“… bequeathed to … descendants the accumulated wisdom of past generations. -- Lotka, 1925) • PHYSIOLOGY(“, science itself can be regarded as a cultural extension of the biological process of acquiring knowledge…” -- Blakemore, TH Huxley, Einstein)
WAYS of LEARNING concrete experience reflective observation active experimentation abstract conceptualization