The Educated Brain: Essays in Neuroeducation

by Edited by Antonio M. Battro , Kurt W. Fischer , Pierre J. Léna

• ISBN13: 9780521181891
• ISBN10: 0521181895
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The emerging field of neuroeducation, concerned with the interaction between mind, brain and education, has proved revolutionary in educational research, introducing concepts, methods and technologies into many advanced institutions around the world. The Educated Brain presents a broad overview of the major topics in this new discipline: part I examines the historical and epistemological issues related to the mind/brain problem and the scope of neuroeducation; part II provides a view of basic brain research in education and use of imaging techniques, and the study of brain and cognitive development; and part III is dedicated to the neural foundations of language and reading in different cultures and the acquisition of basic mathematical concepts. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book features the most recent and advanced research in cognitive neurosciences.

Author Biography

Antonio M. Battro is a member of the National Academy of Education, Argentina, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Kurt W. Fischer is Charles Warland Bigelow Professor of Education Human Development, and Director of the Mind, Brain, Education Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Pierre J. Lna is Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at the Universit Paris VII and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xi
List of tables	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Foreword: Towards a new pedagogical and didactic approach	p. xxi
The mind, brain, and education triad	p. 1
Introduction: Mind, brain, and education in theory and practice	p. 3
Historical considerations on brain and self	p. 20
Building bridges in neuroeducation	p. 43
Mind, brain, and consciousness	p. 59
Understanding mind, brain, and education as a complex, dynamic developing system: Measurement, modeling, and research	p. 71
Brain development, cognition, and education	p. 95
Epigenesis and brain plasticity in education	p. 97
Chronoeducation: How the biological clock influences the learning process	p. 110
Dynamic cycles of cognitive and brain development: Measuring growth in mind, brain, and education	p. 127
Brain mechanisms and learning of high level skills	p. 151
Developing the brain: A functional imaging approach to learning and educational sciences	p. 166
Brain, language, and mathematics	p. 181
A triptych of the reading brain: Evolution, development, pathology, and its intervention	p. 183
Reading and the brain: A cross-language approach	p. 198
Cortical images of early language and phonetic development using near infrared spectroscopy	p. 213
Cerebral constraints in reading and arithmetic: Education as a ôneuronal recyclingö process	p. 232
Index	p. 248
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