Main description:

Educational Neuroscience provides an overview of the wide range of recent initiatives in educational neuroscience, examining a variety of methodological concerns, issues, and directions. * Encourages interdisciplinary perspectives in educational neuroscience * Contributions from leading researchers examine key issues relating to educational neuroscience and mind, brain, and education more generally * Promotes a theoretical and empirical base for the subject area * Explores a range of methods available to researchers * Identifies agencies, organizations, and associations facilitating development in the field * Reveals a variety of on-going efforts to establish theories, models, methods, ethics, and a common language

Contents:

Notes on Contributors vii Foreword Michael A. Peters xi 1 Introduction: Educational Neuroscience Kathryn E. Patten & Stephen R. Campbell 1 2 Educational Neuroscience: Motivations, methodology, and implications Stephen R. Campbell 7 3 Can Cognitive Neuroscience Ground a Science of Learning? Anthony E. Kelly 17 4 A Multiperspective Approach to Neuroeducational Research Paul A. Howard-Jones 23 5 What Can Neuroscience Bring to Education? Michel Ferrari 30 6 Connecting Education and Cognitive Neuroscience: Where will the journey take us? Daniel Ansar1, Donna Coch & Bert De Smedt 36 7 Position Statement on Motivations, Methodologies, and Practical Implications of Educational Neuroscience Research: fMRI studies of the neural correlates of creative intelligence John Geake 42 8 Brain-Science Based Cohort Studies Hideaki Koizumi 47 9 Directions for Mind, Brain, and Education: Methods, Models, and Morality Zachary Stein & Kurt W. Fischer 55 10 The Birth of a Field and the Rebirth of the Laboratory School Marc Schwartz & Jeanne Gerlach 66 11 Mathematics Education and Neurosciences: Towards interdisciplinary insights into the development of young children's mathematical abilities Fenna Van Nes 74 12 Neuroscience and the Teaching of Mathematics Kerry Lee & Swee Fong Ng 80 13 The Somatic Appraisal Model of Affect: Paradigm for Educational Neuroscience and Neuropedagogy Kathryn E. Patten 86 14 Implications of Affective and Social Neuroscience for Educational Theory Mary Helen Immordino-Yang 97 Index 103