BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Edited with Rodriguez, H., and Burgos, W. The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on
Puerto Rican Migration. Rio Piedras, PR: University of Puerto Rico Press, 1994.

Problem Solving and Decision Making: An Integration of Cognitive, Affective, and
Pragmatic Operations. Chicago: Northeastern Illinois University, 1984.

Uptown People's Field Center: A Case of Political Decision Making. Chicago:
International University, 1982.

"Addressing violence in schools: The contributions of chaos and complexity theory". Violence in Schools.  New Directions in Child Development Series. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. (with Karen VanderVen, University of Pittsburgh) Stephanie Spina (editor), in press.

"Chaos, Creativing, and Innovation: Toward a Dynamical Model of Problem Solving." In
Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, edited by R. Robertson and A.
Combs, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1995: 179-198.

"Chaos, in the Triadic Theory of Psychological Competence in the Academic Setting." In
Chaos Theory in Psychology, edited by A. Gilgen and F. Abraham, Westport, CT:
Praeger/Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995: 279-294.

"Victims of the Knight: An Introduction to the Commuter Nation." In The Commuter
Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican Migration, edited by C. A. Torre, H. Rodriguez,
and W. Burgos, Rio Piedras, PR: University of Puerto Rico Press, 1994: 13-25.

With Passalacqua, Garcia. "Plebiscite and Migration: Puerto Ricans in the U. S. and the
Political Status of the Island." In The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican
Migration, edited by C. A. Torre, H. Rodriguez, and W. Burgos, Rio Piedras, PR:
University of Puerto Rico Press, 1994: 365-381.

"Cybernetics of Communication in Academic Life." In Education: A Time for Decisions
Sourcebook II, edited by K. M. Redd and A. M. Harkins, Washington, DC: World Future
Society, 1980: 267-270.

"Hearts & Minds: A dynamical approach to emotions and patterns of physiological responsiveness". Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences.  Human Sciences Press, Inc., New York (in press).

"Fragmentation vs. Wholeness: A Crisis of Perspective in Education." Soundings: An
Interdisciplinary Journal (1996).

"Education: Mechanism or Organism: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in U. S. Education."
World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution (1996).

"La Anatomia Triadica Del Pensamiento Humano Y Sus Implicaciones Para La
Educacion." Journal of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico/Revista de
la Academia de Artesy Gendas de Puerto Rico 2:1 (1987).

"Hacia El Mejoramiento De Las Destrezas Del Pensamiento En La Universidad:
Consideraciones Racionales Y Pragmaticas Para Una Reforma Educativa." Exegesis
(1987).

"Social Cybernetics as an Educational Tool." The Innovator 8:4 (1981).

Good Practices in General Education. EXXON Foundation/Society for Values in
Higher Education, 1996. Member of the research team.

With Barbara Lawrence and Robert King. University of Tennessee College of Liberal
Arts General Education Program Review: Report of the External Review Team,
October 1992.

"Preface" to Maria by Hector Sabelli. Chicago: Society for the Advancement of Clinical
Psychology, 1992.

Observations, Recommendations and Opinions Based on a Study of Minority
Achievement in Montgomery County Public Schools (Edmund W. Gordon, principal
investigator) and the testimony offered at the public hearings of the Montgomery County
Public Schools, Rockville, MD, October 1990.

Equity and Pluralism: Full Participation of Blacks and Hispanics in New England
Higher Education. With 13 other members of the New England Board of Higher
Education Task Force on Black and Hispanic Student Enrollment and Retention, January
1989.

El Proyedo Cayey. Una Investigacion Sdre la Calidad del Pensamiento (findings of
research study on the quality of thinking, conducted with freshmen at Cayey University
College of the University of Puerto Rico). 1989.

Uno Mas. 1978. Producer/Director, 16mm dramatic film on Puerto Rican unemployment.
Aired January 1980, PBS Station WTTW, Chicago.

Puerto Rico Trama Al Desnudo. 1976. Researcher/Producer, 16mm, 40 minute film
documentary on Puerto Rican migration. Research sponsored by the National Science
Foundation.

Latino College Students, by Michael Olivas, in Educational Studies (1987).

Co-Convener/Presenter: 4-day Morning Group on "Chaos Theory and Education". Society for Values in Higher Education. Portland, OR, August, 1998.

8th International Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. Boston, MA,  July, 1998.

"Chaos/Complexity Theory, Hermeneutics, and Construction of the World by Children and Those Who Work With Them". American Educational Research Association Conference. San Diego, CA, April, 1998.

"The Hearts & Minds/Videogames & Violence Projects". 7th. Annual Winter Chaos Conference. Northampton, MA, February, 1998.

Invited Guest: Leadership Development Academy. School Development Program. Dr. James Comer, Keynote Speaker. Hartford, CT, February, 1998.

"Chaos Theory and Social Work: The Hearts & Minds Projects". National Association of Social Workers, October, 1997.

"Memoirs and Personal Writing" and "Schools as Social Service Agencies: A Dynamical Synergy for School-Linked Services"/"The Heart & Minds Project".  Society for Values in Higher Education, Framingham, ME, and Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Milwaukee, WI, both July, 1997.

"The Hearts & Minds Project". Brown University's "LAB",  March, 1997.
 
"Learning and Emotions: A Recurrence Plot Analysis". Society for Values in Higher Education  N-E Regional Conference, Princeton, NJ, March, 1997.
 
"Chaos, Creativity, and Innovation: Implications for Education." The International Society
for Systems Sciences (ISSS), Louisville, KY, July 1996.

"The Influential Leader, Knowledge Transformation, and the Empowerment of the Early
Childhood Professionalization Movement." National Institute for Early Childhood
Professional Development, Minneapolis, MN, June 1996.

"Hearts and Minds: A Non-Linear Approach to Understanding Teaching and Learning."
Harvard University Conference on Chaos Theory and Education, Cambridge, MA, May
1996.

"Chaos and Complexity Theory: An Innovative Approach to the Education of Latino
Students." Connecticut Association of Latin Americans in Higher Education (CALAHE),
Norwalk, CT, April 1996.

"Educational, Ethical, and Legal Responsibilities of Boards of Education." Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 1996.

"Chaos and Complexity Theory Applied to Early Childhood Education." National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Washington, DC, December
1995.

"Working at Teaching." Yale University, New Haven, CT, November 1995.

"Culture, Politics, and Economics: Puerto Rico and the U. S." Yale University/Connecticut
Humanities Council, New Haven, CT, October 1995.

"Current Trends in U. S. Universities." World Net Television/U. S. Information Service,
Washington, DC, September 1995.

"The Interdisciplinary, Multicultural Curriculum." Drew University, NJ, September 1995.

With Karen VanderVen and Doris Fromberg. "Another Way Seeing Things:
Chaos/Complexity Concepts and Implications for Early Childhood Education." National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Annual Conference, Atlanta,
GA, December 1994.

"Cultura Y Caos: Latinos(as) Y La Educacion" [Chaos and Culture: Latinos and
Education]. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale
University, October 1994.

"Chaos, Creativity, and Problem Solving." Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for
Chaos Theory in Psychology, John Hopkins University, June 1994.

"Chaos and the Mind." Fellow of Berkeley College of Yale University, January 1994.

Chaos Theory in Psychology and Education; Nonlinear Dynamics; Teaching/Learning
Process; Relationship Among Language, Culture, and Thinking; Development of Thinking
Skills in Education and Social Service Delivery and Transferability of These Skills Across Disciplines; Cognitive/Affective/Pragmatic Development of Students

With P. Longo. In the Heat of the Melting Pot (book-length manuscript). University of
Iowa Press (submitted for publication).

Ensenansa, Aprendsage, y la Calidad del Pensamiento Un Casode Simbiosis Entre
Tecriay Practica [Teaching, Learning and the Quality of Thinking: A Case of Symbiosis
Between Theory and Practice]--book-length manuscript.

The Triadic Theory of Mental Functioning. Rio Piedras, PR: University of Puerto Rico
Press (book-length manuscript).

"The Dynamics of Education: An Integration of Systems." For submission to The Journal
of the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, Washington, DC.

"Challenges for Education: The Role of Schools and Universities in Transforming
Pre-Collegiate Education."

With Karen VanderVen. "Schools as Social Service Agencies: A Dynamical Analysis."

With Jerome Chandler. "The Triadic Teaching/Learning Process: A Mathematical
Perspective of the Capacity to Learn."

My current research (the Hearts & Minds  educational research project) is a series of pilot studies comparing an electrocardiogram (ECG) series of R-R intervals (the standard procedure for measuring the heart's beat-to-beat intervals exactly) extracted from Holter monitor recordings of children involved in various educational or play activities. Specifically, this research project is designed to explore the emotions children experience as they learn, how different educational processes and activities mediate the experience of emotion, and how these emotions encourage or restrain children's ability to learn. The project builds on previous and present research that seeks to identify characteristic patterns, in the autonomic nervous system, that occur with specific emotions: changes in blood pressure; facial expressions; skin conductance (see Ekman, Izard, Davidson, and others). The objective is to: 1) search for evidence of correlation between particular emotions and patterns of variability in the heart's R-R intervals (RRI --the time between heartbeats) as examined and quantified through recurrence plot analysis (RPA), and 2) consider how these patterns vary among diverse student populations (culture, gender, physical ability, linguistic proficiency).

Valmar Torre-Bruno and Kristen Sepulveda (8th grade students at the West Hills Middle Magnet School in New Haven) have collaborated, as assistants, on my Hearts & Minds  educational research project. They learned the use and function of Holter monitors, helped orient Kindergarten children during the experiments, and documented ongoing activities through video tape and observation sheets. Subsequently, Valmar and Kristen designed their own science fair study using Hearts & Minds   techniques and technology (recurrence plot analysis --RPA) to compare electrocardiogram (ECG) series of R-R intervals of children playing  videogames containing varying levels of violence (from non-violent to extremely voilent).

A Social Cybernetics Approach to Scientific Communication Skills for College Level
Students

Harvard University