Educational Neuroscience: Initiatives and Emerging Issues: 18 (Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444339850 ISBN 13: 9781444339857

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.

• Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience
• Contributions from leading researchers examine key issues relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally
• Promotes a theoretical and empirical base for the subject area
• Explores a range of methods available to researchers
• Identifies agencies, organizations, and associations facilitating development in the field
• Reveals a variety of on-going efforts to establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and a common language

About this title

About the Author

Kathryn E. Patten, Ph.D., teaches English Literature and Psychology; and is also the Outreach Coordinator for the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory, a.k.a. the ENGRAMMETRON, at Simon Fraser University.

Stephen R. Campbell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Education, co-Director of the David Wheeler Institute for Research in Mathematics Education, and Director of the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory, a.k.a., the ENGRAMMETRON, at Simon Fraser University.

From the Back Cover

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of a wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience implicating and pertaining to mind, brain, and education. Contributions from top researchers in the field examine a variety of concerns, issues, and directions pertaining and relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally, focusing on three main areas:

• motivations, aims, and prospects
• theories, methods, and collaborations
• challenges, results, and implications

Chapters promote interdisciplinary perspectives and further establishment of theoretical and empirical bases for research and scholarship bridging Education and the Neurosciences. Though not exhaustive, these chapters identify various parties, agencies, organizations, and initiatives involved in facilitating and furthering development in the field, providing a compendium of on-going efforts to help establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and common language.

• motivations, aims, and prospects
• theories, methods, and collaborations
• challenges, results, and implications

Chapters promote interdisciplinary perspectives and further establishment of theoretical and empirical bases for research and scholarship bridging Education and the Neurosciences. Though not exhaustive, these chapters identify various parties, agencies, organizations, and initiatives involved in facilitating and furthering development in the field, providing a compendium of on-going efforts to help establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and common language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444339850
• ISBN 13: 9781444339857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Patten Kathryn E., Campbell Stephen R.