Mind, Brain, and Education Science: A Comprehensive Guide to the New Brain-Based Teaching (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393706079)

A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend in "brain-based teaching" has been growing for the past twenty years and has exploded in the past five to become the most authoritative pedagogy for best learning results. Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of education in America and beyond, Mind, Brain, and Education Science responds to the clamor for help in identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype. Combining an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with over twenty thought leaders in the field from six different countries, this book describes the birth and future of this new and groundbreaking discipline. Mind, Brain, and Education Science looks at the foundations, standards, and history of the field, outlining the ways that new information should be judged. Well-established information is elegantly separated from "neuromyths" to help teachers split the wheat from the chaff in classroom planning, instruction and teaching methodology.

Author: Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
ISBN-10: 0393706079
ISBN-13: 9780393706079
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2010
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 179