12 brain/mind learning principles in action : developing executive functions of the human brain / Twelve brain/mind learning principles in action Renate Nummela Caine ... [et al.] ; foreword by Arthur L. Costa. - 2nd ed. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009. - xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

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.

9781412961066 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9781412961073 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

2008008416


Learning, Psychology of.
Learning--Physiological aspects.
Brain.
Teaching.

LB1060 / .A16 2009

370.15/23