Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience (The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education): 0 - Hardcover

Mary Helen Immordino-yang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393709817 ISBN 13: 9780393709810

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Synopsis

A neuroscience revolution is making its way into classrooms around the country, changing the way we understand how emotions influence thinking and learning. This book makes available the most pertinent scientific information in a way classroom teachers can understand and apply.

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Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang has the ability to explain complex affective neurobiological research in a clear and concise way and to then translate these research findings into educational theory. . . . [T]he educator will come away from this book with a general understanding of neurobiological research, especially regarding the relationship of emotions to learning and a theoretical approach to educational interventions that should prompt him or her to develop innovations specific to individual students. I heartily recommend this book.-- (09/19/2016)

[A] well written book with a gold mine of information. . . that clinicians and teachers can use to become more effective in helping clients learn new ways to solve problems and discover paths to generate change. . . . [I]t stimulates exciting possibilities.-- (09/01/2016)

Educators have long known that students' emotional experiences greatly impact their learning. Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang offers a neurobiological account of why this may be the case. . . . Immordino-Yang is uniquely positioned to offer insights from affective neuroscience for education because of her interdisciplinary background and experiences. . . . [A] fascinating book.-- (04/16/2016)

This week I hit the jackpot. I discovered the work of Mary Helen Immordino-Yang . . . [Her] research provides a powerful rationale for pedagogy that centralizes the emotional and imaginative lives of students.-- (04/16/2016)

This book is like the planning document for the revolution of affective neuroscience, which has transformed our understanding of what makes humans tick: our drives, frailties, loves, and--through Immordino-Yang's brilliant work--how we learn. Emotion and reason are not separate, as we've figured since antiquity; they are deeply intertwined, as are the mind and body. Here, Immordino-Yang and her colleagues, including the discipline's godfather, Antonio Damasio, explain it all, with reason and passion.-- (01/02/2016)

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is not only a brilliant and original researcher; she also has a gift for coming up with exceptionally creative ways of looking at child and adolescent development for teachers and the general public. From winning the Cozzarelli Prize to her latest achievement in this remarkable book on affective neuroscience for educators, Immordino-Yang provides us with new lenses for understanding how emotion shapes learning.-- (01/02/2016)

Emotions, Learning, and the Brain provides a comprehensive review of the latest research in neuroscience, which demonstrates the power of emotions in learning in every setting, from the classroom to digital environments. For decades, experimentation by psychologists has shown that emotions matter in the classroom--and matter a great deal. Immordino-Yang strengthens that evidence base with a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind it, helping explain the critical links between emotions and learning.-- (01/02/2016)

About the Author

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, associate professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the Brain and Creativity Institute and Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, lives in Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393709817
• ISBN 13: 9780393709810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336