Brain At School

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Regarding education as a profession of brain change this book is written for primary secondary & early years classroom teachers as well as for initial teacher training students university education lecturers & professors educational psychologists cognitive neuroscientists interested in education & importantly parents. No prior neuroscientific knowledge is assumed of the reader & all the scientific terminology used is explained in the Introduction. The book presents research in neuroscience particularly neuroimaging which has implications for education. The central theme of the book is that learning involves neural systems which arise from the dense functional interconnectivity of the brain's myriad specialised modules. The relevance of the selected studies is illustrated by concrete examples of classroom applications. The main implications for pedagogy are how the brain enables learning working memory & intelligence motivation & socialising & creative thinking. The main curriculum applications are in literacy mathematics & the arts. A secondary theme is that neuroscience will become more useful for educators when it explicitly pursues research questions posed by educators. To this end each chapter

Includes:: educational research questions that could to be usefully addressed by neuroscience. The book draws attention to the limitations to current neuroscience experimentation both methodological & epistemological & explains why many current brain fads in education unfortunately do not reflect current knowledge of how the brain works. The introductory & final chapters provide overviews of educational neuroscience as an emerging field of research consider some of its formative debates & look to its future impact on schooling.