Educational neuroscience (also called Mind Brain and Education; MBE) is an emerging academic field that brings together researchers in cognitive neuroscience, developmental cognitive neuroscience, educational psychology, educational technology, education theory and other related disciplines to explore the interactions between biological processes and education.[1][2][3][4] Researchers in educational neuroscience investigate the neural mechanisms of reading,[3] numerical cognition,Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). attention and their attendant difficulties including dyslexia,[5][6] dyscalculia and ADHD as they relate to education. Researchers in this area may link basic findings in cognitive neuroscience with educational technology to help in curriculum implementation for mathematics education and reading education.
History
editThe phrase Mind, Brain and Education was coined by Kurt Fischer of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who is also the director of the Harvard GSE program of the same name.[7] Additionally, Fischer and others recently formed an international society, the International Mind Brain Education Society to bring together researchers in this area, and have recently launched a journal published by Wiley Science [1] by the same name. In the first issue of the new journal, Fischer and the other editors ask the question “Why Mind, Brain, and Education? Why Now?” [2] see also Fischer’s presentation at the first IMBE conference [3]
Other researchers, such as Laura-Ann Petitto prefer to refer to their work as Educational neuroscience, and even claim that it is "The New Revolution" [4]. Another term that is also used to refer to this same enterprise is "Brain, Neurosciences and Education" [5] which is a special interest group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA; [6]) which included a 2005 panel discussion on Educational neuroscience, where they use that name [7]
This emerging field has also received a certain amount of attention in the mainstream press, including, for example, this article in Newsweek by Sharon Begley[8] where she talks about the field of educational neuroscience and references the new IMBES journal indirectly. John Bruer, who is the President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, which funds research into human cognition and neuroscience[9] published an early article that criticized some of the excesses of early claims in Educational neuroscience, but also noted that, via the bridge of cognitive science it was possible to build bridges between neuroscience, cognition and education.[10]
This theme has more recently been taken up by other researchers, like Daniel Ansari at the University of Western Ontario and Donna Coch of Dartmouth University , and has even been systematized by neuroscientists both in articles for their professional peers and in book form [8] [9]
Santiago declaration: [10]
References
edit- ^ Ansari, D.; Coch, D. "Bridges over troubled waters: Education and cognitive neuroscience". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 10 (4). Elsevier: 146–151. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2006.02.007. PMID 16530462.
- ^ Coch, D.; Ansari, D. "Thinking about mechanisms is crucial to connecting neuroscience and education". Cortex. 45 (4). Elsevier: 546–547. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2008.06.001. PMID 18649878.
- ^ a b Goswami, U. "Neuroscience and education: from research to practice?". Nat Rev Neurosci. 7 (5). Nature Publishing Group: 406–411. doi:10.1038/nrn1907. PMID 16607400.
- ^ Meltzoff, AN; Kuhl, PK; Movellan, J.; Sejnowski, TJ. "Foundations for a new science of learning". Science. 325 (5938). AAAS: 284–288. doi:10.1126/science.1175626. PMID 19608908.
- ^ McCandliss, BD; Noble, KG. "The development of reading impairment: a cognitive neuroscience model". Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 9 (3): 196–204. PMID 12953299.
- ^ Gabrieli, JD. "Dyslexia: a new synergy between education and cognitive neuroscience". Science. 325 (5938). AAAS: 280–283. doi:10.1126/science.1171999. PMID 19608907.
- ^ "Mind, Brain and Education".
- ^ "The Case for Chutes and Ladders". Oct 22, 2007.
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{{cite web}}: line feed character in|title=at position 33 (help) - ^ Bruer, J. "Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far". Educational Researcher. 26 (8): 4–16.