ISBN:
1299876994
,
9781299876996
,
9789400766716
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Educating the young child v.7
Series Statement:
Educating the Young Child Ser. v.7
Parallel Title:
Print version Early Childhood and Neuroscience - Links to Development and Learning
DDC:
372.21
Keywords:
Child development
;
Cognitive neuroscience
;
Early childhood education
;
Child development..
;
Neurosciences
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Information from neuroscience is growing and being properly used, and misused wich makes it imperative that educators receive accurate and practical information. This book provides the accurate and practical information educators (pre-service and in-service) and caregivers serving children birth through age 8 need to know. This volume takes a practical and cautionary stance. It reminds educators to consider the ethical implications of neuroscience when it is applied to education, reviews current findings from neuroscience and reveals the dangers of oversimplification and inappropriate extensio
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface ; Educational Neuroscience and the Double Entendre; References; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; How Does a Volume Such as This Come Together?; Importance of This Book for Educating Today's Children; Overview of Book; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Practical and Ethical Concerns of Using Neuroscience to Teach Young Children and Help Them Self-Regulate; Introduction; Ethical and Moral Issues Arising from Neuroscience; Education as an Ethical/Moral Enterprise; Neuroscience, Educators, and Ethical Decisions; A Utilitarian Approach to Moral Decisions
Description / Table of Contents:
A Rights Approach to Moral Decisions A Fairness or Justice Approach to Moral Decisions; A Common-Good Approach to Moral Decisions; A Virtue Approach to Moral Decisions; References; Chapter 3: Neuroscience: The Genesis of Our Individual Brain Strengths; Introduction; Brain-Based Aspects of Multiple Intelligences; The Environment Part I: The MI Early Childhood Classroom (ECC); The Observations; Heredity Influences: Neurologically Speaking, Each Brain Is Unique; Studying the Outside of the Brain; Looking from the Inside-Out: Brain Development in Utero
Description / Table of Contents:
How Do Our Individual Brain-Based Preferences Develop? Neural Networks Are Knowledge; What About Our Three ECE Students' Brain-Based Strengths?; The Wisdom of Activating Prior Knowledge; Individual Brain Talents; Practical Applications: Using the Environment to Develop Students' Neurological Gifts and Remediate Their Underdeveloped MI Areas; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Reading and the Young Brain; The Convergence of Neurosciences, Psychology, and Education; Reading Development in Young Children; Experiences Shape Brain Development; While Language Is Innate, Reading Is Not
Description / Table of Contents:
Learning Two Languages Doesn't Suppress Either Repetition Leads to Automaticity; We Are Hardwired to Imitate; Practical Applications; References; Chapter 5: Brain Development, Early Childhood, and Brain-Based Education: A Critical Analysis; Introduction; Neural Development; Prenatal Development; Postnatal Development; Importance of Myelin; Life Span Changes in the Brain; Repairing an Injured Brain; Practical Applications; The Brain, Educational Policy, and Critical Periods; "Right" Versus "Left" Brain; Brain Lateralization and Gender Differences; Brain-Compatible Teaching
Description / Table of Contents:
Brain-Compatible Teaching, Learning Styles, and Multiple Intelligences Exercising the Brain; Summary; References; Chapter 6: Addressing the Affective Domain: What Neuroscience Says About Social/Emotional Development in Early Childhood; Introduction; The Affective Domain and Its Role in Learning; Brain Architecture; Critical Periods of Brain Development; Nature and Nurture, Not Nature or Nurture; Neuroplasticity of the Brain; The Environment and Its Impact on Emotional Development; Relationships with Caregivers; The Inseparability of Thoughts and Feelings; Expressing Emotions
Description / Table of Contents:
Nurturing Emotional Development
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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