The Neurological Basis of Learning, Development and Discovery: Implications for Science and Mathematics InstructionA goal of mine ever since becoming an educational researcher has been to help construct a sound theory to guide instructional practice. For far too long, educational practice has suffered because we have lacked firm instructional guidelines, which in my view should be based on sound psychological theory, which in turn should be based on sound neurological theory. In other words, teachers need to know how to teach and that "how-to-teach" should be based solidly on how people learn and how their brains function. As you will see in this book, my answer to the question of how people learn is that we all learn by spontaneously generating and testing ideas. Idea generating involves analogies and testing requires comparing predicted consequences with actual consequences. We learn this way because the brain is essentially an idea generating and testing machine. But there is more to it than this. The very process ofgenerating and testing ideas results not only in the construction of ideas that work (i. e. , the learning of useful declarative knowledge), but also in improved skill in learning (i. e. , the development of improved procedural knowledge). |
Contents
The Neurological Basis of SelfRegulation | 27 |
Brain Maturation Intellectual Development | 57 |
Brain Maturation Intellectual Development | 79 |
Creative Thinking Analogy and a Neural Model | 99 |
The Role of Analogies and Reasoning Skill in Theoretical | 119 |
What Kinds of Scientific Concepts Exist? | 159 |
Psychological and Neurological Models of Scientific | 183 |
Rejecting Nature of Science Misconceptions By Preservice | 211 |
Implications for The Nature of Knowledge and Instruction | 225 |
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The Neurological Basis of Learning, Development and Discovery Anton E. Lawson No preview available - 2014 |
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