Issues and Perspectives
Educationalists are becoming increasingly aware of the advances in understanding that neuroscience is making, and are looking for insights to improve their practice ... enthusiasts have over-simplified neuroscientific research and over-interpreted its findings, generating a number of 'neuromyths' in the process ... John Hall
Neuroscience has advanced to the point where it is time to think critically about the form in which research information is made available to educators so that it is interpreted appropriately for practice ... How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
Fad or foundation, which will it be? The choice is ours ... Pat Wolfe
Education is not just a matter of optimizing mechanisms around traditional routes to learning. It is a matter of asking whether we are setting the correct goals for one to achieve in education ... you have to not just consider the improvements in methodology that might come out of neuroscience, but whether we need to be addressing the questions of what we want education to achieve ... Colin Blakemore
Brains have evolved as active information-gathering devices: they simultaneously act and make predictions about the consequences of their actions based on internal models. In its most fundamental sense, learning occurs when the observed consequences of actions are inconsistent with the predictions of the models, and so require change ... The educational task is to sustain and make use of this intrinsic capability rather than to suppress it ... Paul Grobstein et al
There must be features of classroom practice that exploit aspects of the brain that cognitive science and neuroscience have not yet properly documented, but that teachers know all about ... Colin Blakemore
A variety of significant developments in science and technology are now emerging that could spark an extended career-long research agenda for imaginative educators ... Robert Sylwester
Looking to the future, we should attempt to develop an interactive, recursive relationship among research programs in education, cognitive psychology, and systems neuroscience ... John T. Bruer
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