Giorgio Bertini
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Category Archives: Education
Seeing as Understanding: The Importance of Visual Mathematics for our Brain and Learning
There is a common belief in education – that visual mathematics is for lower level work, and for struggling or younger students, and that students should only work visually as a prelude to more advanced or abstract mathematics. As Thomas … Continue reading
Neuroscience and Education: myths and messages
For several decades, myths about the brain — neuromyths — have persisted in schools and colleges, often being used to justify ineffective approaches to teaching. Many of these myths are biased distortions of scientific fact. Cultural conditions, such as differences … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Neuroscience
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Mind, Brain, and Education – Implications for Educators
This issue of LEARNing Landscapes shares historically, theoretically, and practically how the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and education are working together to get a more cohesive understanding of the physiology of the brain, and to implement learning in more effective … Continue reading
Education and Health – Free choice of hospital may reinforce social differences
People with higher education, and people who live in areas with a low mortality rate, are overrepresented among users of the free choice of the hospital system. Research shows that the system has reduced waiting times nationally, but different sections … Continue reading
We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education
Recent advances in neuroscience are highlighting connections between emotion, social functioning, and decision making that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the role of affect in education. In particular, the neurobiological evidence suggests that the aspects of cognition … Continue reading
Posted in Affective, Creativity, Education, Learning, Morality, Neuroscience
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Neuroscience and the Classroom – Making Connections
Welcome to Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections. This course provides insight into some of the current research from cognitive science and neuroscience about how the brain learns. The major themes include the deep connection among emotion, thinking, learning, and … Continue reading
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From Brain to Mind: Using Neuroscience to Guide Change in Education
This book offers the reader an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience, and its implications for education. Stating that educational change is underway and that the time is ripe to recognize … Continue reading
Posted in Brains, Cognition, Cognitive neuroscience, Education, Learning, Mind, Neuroscience
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Towards ecological literacy: A Permaculture approach for science learning
The profound lack of sustainable systems on our planet is of great concern to environmentalists, some of who are educators and some of who are permaculturists. Many of the problems facing Earth and its inhabitants are caused by a lack … Continue reading
On the origin of education
To deny the importance of teaching evolution is to fail to grasp a basic truth about children. Why do I feel so strongly that evolution should be a part of every child’s education? In large measure it is because Darwin … Continue reading
Educating Persons, Imaging Brains – the potentials of Neuroscience for Education
Although neuroscience has much to offer education, in recent years its potentials have been somewhat obscured by a climate of unrealistic expectations. Now the “neuromyths‟ that were prevalent have been decisively dismissed by neuroscientists, a more accurate assessment may be … Continue reading
Posted in Brains, Education, Emotions, Neuroscience, Social cognition
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