Connecting Learning Theory, Brain Biology and Intelligence

This session examines learning theories through a biological lens. We will discuss intelligences (humans and non-humans) and consider how teaching-instructional approaches improve learning outcomes for children and adults.

• Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism

• Biological requirements for learning

• Instructional approaches and learning

• Intelligence across the animal kingdom (Available as an online or in-person lecture).

Contact Information:

Email: bjenz@asu.edu or (480) 734-7041

Emeritus College Office

Email: emerituscollege@asu.edu

Phone: (480) 965-0002

J. Richard Haefer Professor Emeritus of Music, Arizona State University

Dr. J. Richard Haefer is a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for thirty-six years. He has studied North American Indian music and Gregorian Chant for more than fifty years; Mexican music (Indigenous, música regionales, and art music), mariachi (in Mexico and the U.S.), and colonial art music for forty years. He was the founder of the ASU Mariachi Program and directed for it twenty-five years. He also recorded two CDs with his professional group Mariachi Corazon de Phoenix. He prefers performing in the style of Plaza Garibaldi, Cuidad México.

He has articles and reviews in Speculum, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1st and 2nd eds., The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed (area editor)., Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditiohal Music, CIMCIM Publication Series, Revista Memoria de Archivo Nacional de la Nación (Colombia), Emeritus Voices, Liberal and Fine Arts Review, and the Newsletter and Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, with books and book chapters published by The Smithsonian Institution Press, University of New Mexico Press, Waveland Press, Navajo Community College Press, and CIMCIM International. He has two online databases in preparation: Hispanoamericano Colonial Music Discography, and Villancicos in Colonial Nueva Mundo.

offered by J. Richard Haefer:

With more than 20 different Indigenous cultures living in Arizona there is a vast range of different musical sounds varying from multiple vocal timbres and tensions to instrumental practices all performed within a variety of musical styles from traditional to modern, pop, opera, country, and rap. Examples of each will be heard and discussed within this one-hour lecture. (Available as an online or in-person lecture).

The composition of hymns in the Latin language began in the first centuries Anno Domino and continued through the 19th century. In this one and one-half hour lecture major authors of these hymn texts are illustrated via specific hymns from each of three eras: 1) the formative period, 2) the period of florescence, and 3) the period of decline. A handout of authors and titles will be provided. (Available as an online or in-person lecture).