developing executive functions of the human brain Caine, Renate Nummela. text bibliography cau Thousand Oaks, Calif Corwin Press c2009 2009 2nd ed. monographic eng

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xvii, 285 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. 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. Renate Nummela Caine ... [et al.] ; foreword by Arthur L. Costa. Rev. ed. of: 12 brain/mind learning principles in action, published in 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-280) and index. Learning, Psychology of Learning Physiological aspects Brain Teaching LB1060 .A16 2009 612.82 BEH 9781412961066 (cloth : acidfree paper) 9781412961073 (pbk. : acidfree paper) 2008008416 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008008416.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0812/2008008416.html DLC 080303 20161211163140.0 15202961