Preface

Teaching with brain should be a no-brainer. Yet, very few of us know enough fundamentals of how the human brain works or, for that matter, are familiar enough with the delicate dance that is the intersection of neuroscience and pedagogy to be successful at teaching with the brain. It is this conundrum that Neural Education seeks to address.

The body of knowledge with practice that is contained in this book emerged from design research projects in learning theory and implementation. Several fields of research emerged separately but came to a critical confluence at the end of the decade of the brain (1990–2000). This coincided with LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments), first National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of ...

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