Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching - Softcover

Tokuhama-Espinosa, Tracey

 
9780393706079: Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393706079 ISBN 13: 9780393706079
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2010

Synopsis

A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend in “brain-based teaching” has been growing for the past twenty years and has exploded in the past five to become the most authoritative pedagogy for best learning results. Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of education in America and beyond, Mind, Brain, and Education Science responds to the clamor for help in identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype. Combining an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with over twenty thought leaders in the field from six different countries, this book describes the birth and future of this new and groundbreaking discipline. Mind, Brain, and Education Science looks at the foundations, standards, and history of the field, outlining the ways that new information should be judged. Well-established information is elegantly separated from “neuromyths” to help teachers split the wheat from the chaff in classroom planning, instruction and teaching methodology.

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About the Author

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, PhD, is a Professor at Harvard University's Extension School and is currently an educational researcher affiliated with the Latin American Social Science Research Faculty (FLACSO) in Quito, Ecuador. She is also the founder of Connections: The Learning Sciences Platform, and an Associate Editor of the Nature Partner Journal, Science of Learning. Tracey has taught Kindergarten through University and works with schools, universities, governments and NGOs in more than 40 countries around the world.

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Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393706079
ISBN 13 
9780393706079
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
464