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A holistic approach to educational neuroscience: opinion
The brain is involved in all learning that we do, so if we’re in the business of learning doesn’t it make sense that we know how the brain learns best?
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I would be interested in how this mode of teaching and learning compares against world’s best practice, and what sort of results students can achieve in the world’s stage at the end of ten or twelve years of education. ‘Learned stuff’ can be forgotten too, but mastery of material can easily be picked up again with minimum revision even after seventeen years of lapse.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your comment.
This (A Holistic Approach to Educational Neuroscience) is world’s best practice in education.
It is recommended, and studied, by leading educators, neuroscientists and institutions around the world.
You can read a very brief summary of this evidence – and these recommendations – on my website, at the link provided at the bottom of my article. Just click on ‘Research’.
You may also like this article from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation: https://www.oecd.org/site/educeri21st/40554190.pdf
And this, from the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute: https://qbi.uq.edu.au/learning
Plus, it is well-known that schools are now focusing more on well-being and realising its impact on learning and outcomes. By using a holistic approach to educational neuroscience, it becomes very clear why this focus is so beneficial – and how to make practical changes in the classroom and at home, to boost well-being and consequently academic achievement also.
Taking this approach to education will become the norm over the next few years; it’s a very exciting field to part of, at the very forefront of the future in education!
I also agree entirely that we should aim for mastery in education; not simply moving students through the curriculum outcomes, so to speak.
Please don’t hesitate to ask any other questions.
May I ask your position and role in education?
(There are many more studies on the increase to GPAs etc which I could provide you with links to.)
Warm regards, Tammy-Anne Caldwell