The Importance of Bringing the Latin American Perspective to Cognitive Sciences and Education

ALVES, MV; EKUNI, R.; HERMIDA M.J.; VALLE LISBOA, J.

Cognitive Sciences and Education in Non-WEIRD Populations: A Latin American Perspective

Springer-Nature

Lugar: London; Año: 2022; p. 3 - 10

Cognitive sciences and neurosciences have advanced enormously during the last decades not only in the understanding of how mind and brain work but also in how that knowledge can be considered to improve educational practice. However, most of the evidence in this issue came from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Thus, there is not much information about how the integration of cognitive sciences and neuroscience could impact education in non-WEIRD populations, which are by far the biggest. This chapter introduces a book addressing how non-WEIRD societies’ research developments in cognitive science and neuroscience can impact education; in other words, this chapter introduces the central concepts to understand the interaction between cognitive science and education in cultural and social contexts that are quite unknown, mainly in Latin America. Also, this chapter provides an outline of the book that serves as a guide for reading it