Cleveland Chapter Monthly Meeting
Jeremy Genovese, Cleveland State University "Utopia and Human Nature"
From Plato's "Republic" to B. F. Skinner's "Walden Two," humans have speculated about the perfect social order. Some have tried to put these speculations into practice, creating communities that have aspired to utopia. What can we learn from these social experiments? How does the notion of utopia square with emerging scientific views of human nature? These are some of the questions that will be explored in this discussion of utopia and human nature.
Jeremy Genovese earned a BA at Cleveland State in 1991, a master’s degree at Kent State University in 1994, and a doctorate in urban education in 2000 from Cleveland State. His academic career began at Cleveland State as an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Services in 2001. He was promoted to Associate Professor of Human Development and Educational Psychology in 2006. Dr. Genovese's scholarship spans the physiology and psychology of learning and learning styles, assessment techniques, and implications for policies and procedures in education of children.
