12 brain/mind learning principles in action : developing executive functions of the human brain - Caine, Renate Nummela (Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, 2009)
Getting started -- Why relaxed alertness provides the optimum emotional climate for learning -- Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat, helplessness, and fatigue -- The brain/mind is social -- The search for meaning is innate -- Emotions are critical to patterning -- Creating the richest learning environments using immersion in complex experience -- The brain/mind processes parts and wholes simultaneously -- All learning engages the physiology -- The search for meaning occurs through patterning -- Learning is developmental -- Helping learners digest and consolidate learning -- There are at least two approaches to memory -- Learning engages both focused attention and peripheral perception -- Learning is both conscious and unconscious -- Each brain is uniquely organized -- Resources.
Rev. ed. of: 12 brain/mind learning principles in action, published in 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-280) and index.
Keywords: Learning, Psychology of; Learning -- Physiological aspects; Brain; Teaching