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Collins, Allan Meakin was born on August 7, 1937 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Clinton and Sarah Amy (Meakin) Collins.
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What causes us to experience emotions? What makes emotions vary in intensity? How are different emotions related to one another and to the language used to talk about them? What are the information processing mechanisms and structures that underlie the elicitation and intensification of emotions? Despite an abundance of psychological research on emotions, many fundamental questions like these have yet to be answered. The Cognitive Structure of Emotions addresses such questions by presenting a systematic and detailed account of the cognitive antecedents of emotions. The authors propose three aspects of the world to which people can react emotionally. People can react to events of concern to them, to the actions of those they consider responsible for such events, and to objects. It is argued that these three classes of reactions lead to three classes of emotions, each based on evaluations in terms of different kinds of knowledge representations. The authors characterize a wide range of emotions, offering concrete proposals about the factors that influence the intensity of each. In doing so, they forge a clear separation between emotions themselves and the language of emotion, and offer the first systematic, comprehensive, and computationally tractable account of the cognitions that underlie distinct types of human emotions.
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The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today's Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen through the crack of the digital divide? In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs, our homes, our lives, and therefore must also transform our schools. Much like after the school-reform movement of the industrial revolution, our society is again poised at the edge of radical change. To keep pace with a globalized technological culture, we must rethink how we educate the next generation or America will be left behind. This groundbreaking book offers a vision for the future of American education that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom to include online social networks, distance learning with anytime, anywhere access, digital home schooling models, video-game learning environments, and more.
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How can we keep children safe in an uncertain world, but also raise them to be confident in taking the healthy, emotional risks necessary to succeed in life? The authors of this unique booktwo clinical psychologists, who are also mothersprovide essential guidance for parents and teachers. They explain, step-by-step, how to help children become successful risk-takers: ready to leap at lifes opportu...
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educator psychologist cognitive scientist
Collins, Allan Meakin was born on August 7, 1937 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Clinton and Sarah Amy (Meakin) Collins.
Master of Arts in Communications Sciences, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970.
Senior scientist Bolt, Beranek & Newman Inc., Cambridge, 1967-1982, principal scientist, 1982-2000. Professor education and social policy Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1989—2005, emeritus, since 2005. Co-director Center for Technology in Education, Bank St. College Education, New York City, 1991—1994.
Research professor education Boston College, 1998—2002. Visiting senior lecturer Harvard Graduate School Education, 2005—2006. Lecturer various colleges universities.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy Education, Cognitive Science Society (chairman 1979-1980, goving. board 1979-1987, fellow 2007), American Association for Artificial Intelligence (fellow 1990), American Educational Research Association (fellow 2008).
Married Anne Marjorie Linstead, August 24, 1963. Children: Antony, Elizabeth.