Brown Bag Lecture
Minds of Our Own. Cognition and Learning in the Natural Sciences.
Presented by Joel Mintzes
September 22, 1998, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Room 259 Educational Sciences Building
One of the projects that NISE Fellow Joel Mintzes is currently working on is a Public
Broadcasting System miniseries on cognition and learning in the natural sciences. The
National Science Foundation, the Annenberg Corporation for Public Broadcasting Mathematics
and Science Project, and the Smithsonian Institution underwrote the series. The program,
produced by the Science Media Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is
entitled Minds of Our Own. The focus is on learners' conceptual understanding and
"misconceptions" in the physical and biological sciences. Mintzes will show
about 30 minutes from one program and then respond to questions and comments.
Joel Mintzes is professor of biological sciences at the University of North Carolina at
Wilmington (UNCW) and adjunct professor of science education at North Carolina State
University. He has served as director of the UNCW Introductory Biology Program for 25
years. His research interests focus on conceptual development and cognitive processes in
biology.