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Educational Neuroscience: Initiatives and Emerging Issues

ISBN: 978-1-444-34580-3

September 2011

120 pages

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
About the Author
Kathryn E. Patten, Ph.D., teaches English Literature and Psychology; and is also the Outreach Coordinator for the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory, a.k.a. the ENGRAMMETRON, at Simon Fraser University.

Stephen R. Campbell, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Education, co-Director of the David Wheeler Institute for Research in Mathematics Education, and Director of the Educational Neuroscience Laboratory, a.k.a., the ENGRAMMETRON, at Simon Fraser University.