Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions.
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Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience
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Contributions from leading researchers examine key issues relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally
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Promotes a theoretical and empirical base for the subject area
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Explores a range of methods available to researchers
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Identifies agencies, organizations, and associations facilitating development in the field
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Reveals a variety of on-going efforts to establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and a common language
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Foreword |
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1 Introduction: Educational Neuroscience |
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2 Educational Neuroscience: Motivations, methodology, and implications |
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3 Can Cognitive Neuroscience Ground a Science of Learning? |
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4 A Multiperspective Approach to Neuroeducational Research |
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5 What Can Neuroscience Bring to Education? |
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6 Connecting Education and Cognitive Neuroscience: Where will the journey take us? |
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7 Position Statement on Motivations, Methodologies, and Practical Implications of Educational Neuroscience Research: fMRI studies of the neural correlates of creative intelligence |
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8 Brain-Science Based Cohort Studies |
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9 Directions for Mind, Brain, and Education: Methods, Models, and Morality |
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10 The Birth of a Field and the Rebirth of the Laboratory School |
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11 Mathematics Education and Neurosciences: Towards interdisciplinary insights into the development of young children's mathematical abilities |
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12 Neuroscience and the Teaching of Mathematics |
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13 The Somatic Appraisal Model of Affect: Paradigm for Educational Neuroscience and Neuropedagogy |
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14 Implications of Affective and Social Neuroscience for Educational Theory |
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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang |
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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.