Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6205
Title: Cognitive Neuroscience: Implications for education?
Contributor(s): Geake, John  (author); Cooper, Paul (author)
Publication Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/0140672030260102
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/6205
Abstract: Research into the functioning of the human brain, particularly during the past decade, has greatly enhanced our understanding of cognitive behaviours which are fundamental to education: learning, memory, intelligence, emotion. Here, we argue the case that research findings from cognitive neuroscience hold implications for educational practice. In doing so we advance a bio-psycho-social position that welcomes multi-disciplinary perspectives on current educational challenges. We provide some examples of research implications which support conventional pedagogic wisdom, and others which are novel and perhaps counter-intuitive. As an example, we take a model of adaptive plasticity that relies on stimulus reinforcement and examine possible implications for pedagogy and curriculum depth. In doing so, we reject some popular but over-simplistic applications of neuroscience to education. In sum, the education profession could benefit from embracing rather than ignoring cognitive neuroscience. Moreover, educationists should be actively contributing to the research agenda of future brain research.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Westminster Studies in Education, 26(1), p. 7-20
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1470-1359
0140-6728
1743-7288
1743-727X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930102 Learner and Learning Processes
930199 Learner and Learning not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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