Teachers are increasingly encouraged to become amateur neuroscientists. For the last decade, educational materials have promoted neuroplasticity, the brain’s capacity for adaptation, as the key to ...
WHY NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH IS GOING TO THE HEADS OF THECLASS BRAIN-BASED LEARNING (SECOND EDITION) Eric Jensen, M.A. (Brain Store Inc., 2000) FOR THE LEARNER'S SAKE: BRAIN-BASED INSTRUCTION FOR THE ...
The brain’s primitive “fear center” may be much more than that, as new research on the amygdala suggests it plays a crucial role in learning, emotion, and decision-making. Researchers from Dartmouth ...
EDUCATION assumes that truth exists. Without truth, learning becomes incoherent. The claim “there are no absolute truths” is self-defeating, for one must ask: “Are you absolutely sure of that?” To ...