Emotions, learning, and the brain : exploring the educational implications of affective neuroscience / Mary Helen Immordino-Yang ; foreword by Howard Gardner ; afterword by Antonio Damasio.

By: Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen, 1971- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Norton Series on the social neuroscience of education: Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 206 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393709810; 0393709817Subject(s): Affective education -- Physiological aspects | Affective neuroscience | Pedagogisk psykologi | Emotions | Psychology, Educational | NeuropsychologyDDC classification: 370.15/34 LOC classification: LB1072 | .I66 2016
Contents:
Introduction: Why emotions are integral to learning -- Part I. What are emotional feelings, and how are they supported by the brain? 1. We feel, therefore we learn : the relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education / with Antonio R. Damasio -- 2. "Rest is not idleness" : implications of the brain's default mode for human development and education / with Joanna A. Christodoulou and Vanessa Singh -- 3. Implications of affective and social neuroscience for educational theory -- Part II. What insights can affective neuroscience offer about learning and teaching? 4. Neuroscience bases of learning / with Kurt W. Fischer -- 5. The role of emotion and skilled intuition in learning / with Matthias Faeth -- 6. Musings on the neurobiological and evolutionary origins of creativity via a developmental analysis of one child's poetry -- 7. A tale of two cases : lessons for education from the study of two boys living with half their brains -- 8. The smoke around mirror neurons : goals as sociocultural and emotional organizers of perception and action in learning -- 9. Admiration for virtue : neuroscientific perspectives on a motivating emotion / with Lesley Sylvan -- 10. Perspectives from social and affective neuroscience on the design of digital learning technologies / with Vanessa Singh.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why emotions are integral to learning -- Part I. What are emotional feelings, and how are they supported by the brain? 1. We feel, therefore we learn : the relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education / with Antonio R. Damasio -- 2. "Rest is not idleness" : implications of the brain's default mode for human development and education / with Joanna A. Christodoulou and Vanessa Singh -- 3. Implications of affective and social neuroscience for educational theory -- Part II. What insights can affective neuroscience offer about learning and teaching? 4. Neuroscience bases of learning / with Kurt W. Fischer -- 5. The role of emotion and skilled intuition in learning / with Matthias Faeth -- 6. Musings on the neurobiological and evolutionary origins of creativity via a developmental analysis of one child's poetry -- 7. A tale of two cases : lessons for education from the study of two boys living with half their brains -- 8. The smoke around mirror neurons : goals as sociocultural and emotional organizers of perception and action in learning -- 9. Admiration for virtue : neuroscientific perspectives on a motivating emotion / with Lesley Sylvan -- 10. Perspectives from social and affective neuroscience on the design of digital learning technologies / with Vanessa Singh.

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