SECTION HEADINGS

EXCERPTS

Executive Functioning: Concept and Definition

Higher Order as Tautologically Remote

Straight is Narrow: The Unjustified Devaluation
of Error and Preference

Executive Function replaces Meaning

Where organization gets made

Executive Function, at best, a Last Resort

Executive Function as Restriction

Higher or Lower Order Function; Deficit or Advantage

The Virtues of ADHD

The Solution is the Problem

Executive Function, Restriction, Conformity

Instruction

Conclusion

References

"...Executive Funcion refers to a capacity for rule following that is detached from meaning."

"...Executive function is the homunculus dressed up as frontal cortex, the ghost in the machine...The little man in the heard now called the supervisory attentional system."

"...The executive function model simply does not support meaning, it assumes it."

"...Executive function assumes that organization is imposed by the learner and not inherent in the information field itself."

"...those who allow and insist on meaning...avoid the more effortful contortions of executive function. They see no need to inhibit insights and in fact exploit them...these are the individuals who carry the label ADHD."

"...In recognizing that executive function requires the inhibition of basic urgencies, those who accept the idea are willing to barter the drive toward meaning in exchange for self-control applied toward meaningless tasks."