Learning, Knowledge and Human Development MOOC’s Updates

What do we mean by the social mind? In what ways is thinking 'inside your head' also social thinking? How do community and culture shape learning?

 

Social mind it refers to the distinctively human capacity to 'read' (that is, to infer) the mental states of others while reciprocally enabling those others to read one's own mental states at the same time. In other words social cognition, cognition refers to the mechanics of thinking- its how we perceived, process, retain and recall information. For example, while you are reading this sentence your brain is engaging a whole range of mechanisms. First you are seeing the words. this visual input is then translated, encoded and matched to a memory for what those words means. As you access each word's meaning it is compiled into a sentence structure according to other stored rule...Social thinking or thinking socially refers to a process we all go through in our mind as we try to make sense of our own and others’ thoughts, feelings, and intentions in context, whether we are co-existing, actively interacting, or figuring out what is happening from a distance (e.g., media, literature, etc.). Our ability to think socially is part of social emotional learning that begins at birth and evolves across our lifetime. In a way that your brain process the information and analyze it.

Community and culture has a big role also in shaping and influencing our learning. In our world, we have different culture that shape our attitudes, way of living, perception, the way we see things and beliefs. By this our learning varies in our community and culture. it may be right to us but wrong to them.

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