12 brain/mind learning principles in action : developing executive functions of the human brain /
by Caine, Renate Nummela.
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BookPublisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9781412961066 (cloth : acidfree paper); 9781412961073 (pbk. : acidfree paper).Other title: Twelve brain/mind learning principles in action.Subject(s): Learning, Psychology of | Learning -- Physiological aspects | Brain | TeachingOnline resources: Table of contents only Rev. ed. of: 12 brain/mind learning principles in action, published in 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-280) and index.
Getting started -- Why relaxed alertness provides the optimum emotional climate for learning -- Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat, helplessness, and fatigue -- The brain/mind is social -- The search for meaning is innate -- Emotions are critical to patterning -- Creating the richest learning environments using immersion in complex experience -- The brain/mind processes parts and wholes simultaneously -- All learning engages the physiology -- The search for meaning occurs through patterning -- Learning is developmental -- Helping learners digest and consolidate learning -- There are at least two approaches to memory -- Learning engages both focused attention and peripheral perception -- Learning is both conscious and unconscious -- Each brain is uniquely organized -- Resources.
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