¿Qué es la NEUROEDUCACIÓN? ¿Se puede hablar de NEUROEDUCADORES, una nueva profesión? Desde la primera edición de " Neuroeducación " , hace ya cuatro años, se ha incrementado enormemente el interés por una nueva enseñanza y educación basadas en cómo funciona el cerebro. Es un hecho incontrovertible que lo que somos, pensamos, sentimos, aprendemos, memorizamos y expresamos en nuestra conducta y lenguaje es expresión del funcionamiento de nuestro cerebro en interacción constante con el resto de los órganos del cuerpo, y de este con todo lo que le rodea, desde lo físico y lo químico, a lo familiar, lo social y la cultura en que se vive. En los 22 capítulos que constituyen este libro que ahora presentamos en su segunda edición revisada, se habla de la importancia de la emoción y la empatía, de la curiosidad, de los mecanismos de la atención, del propio proceso cerebral del aprendizaje y consolidación de la memoria, de los ritmos circadianos y de tantos otros ingredientes que influyen para innovar y mejorar la enseñanza. El interés generado nos lleva a albergar con ilusión la esperanza de que ocurran cambios importantes en nuestras sociedades occidentales, en donde, por fin, se comience a reconocer y aceptar " con calado " que el ser humano es lo que la educación hace de él.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) stands at the forefront of contemporary efforts to create universal access to educational curricula for all students, including those with disabilities. The "universal" in UDL does not mean there is a single optimal solution for everyone. Instead, it underscores the need for flexible approaches to teaching and learning that meet the needs of different kinds of learners. In this first UDL Reader, Anne Meyer and David H. Rose, cofounders of CAST, the educational nonprofit that developed the UDL framework, bring together a collection of articles on the practical, classroom dimensions of the UDL revolution in education. The authors offer insights on learner differences, the capacities of new media in the classroom, and effective teaching and assessment practices. The volume also includes lessons from teacher professional development workshops, classroom-based research, and UDL practitioners themselves. A highly readable volume aimed particularly at school teachers and administrators, this book is also an uncommonly accessible introduction to UDL for all readers committed to creating improved and universal access to educational materials for all students.

Establishing the parameters and goals of the new field of mind, brain, and education science. A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend in “brain-based teaching” has been growing for the past twenty years and has exploded in the past five to become the most authoritative pedagogy for best learning results. Aimed at teachers, teacher trainers and policy makers, and anyone interested in the future of education in America and beyond, Mind, Brain, and Education Science responds to the clamor for help in identifying what information could and should apply in classrooms with confidence, and what information is simply commercial hype. Combining an exhaustive review of the literature, as well as interviews with over twenty thought leaders in the field from six different countries, this book describes the birth and future of this new and groundbreaking discipline. Mind, Brain, and Education Science looks at the foundations, standards, and history of the field, outlining the ways that new information should be judged. Well-established information is elegantly separated from “neuromyths” to help teachers split the wheat from the chaff in classroom planning, instruction and teaching methodology.

Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant in today's competitive societies. However, in this volume Penny Spikins argues that compassion lies at the heart of what makes us human. She takes us on a journey from the earliest stone age societies two million years ago to the lives of Neanderthals in Ice Age Europe, using archaeological evidence to illustrate the central role that emotional connections had in human evolution. Simple acts of kindness left to us from millions of years ago provide evidence for how social emotions and morality evolved, and how our capacity to reach out beyond ourselves into the lives of others allowed us to work together for a common good, and form the basis for human success.

The inclusion of students with disabilities in the classroom is an crucial concern in education. The Universally Designed Classroom reveals how new technology, curricula, and trends are improving access to mainstream learning and closing achievement gaps.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write. By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contradictory spelling and reading rules of English. As a result, their enjoyment of learning about words increases, and their literacy skills improve. Written by leading researchers for trainee teachers, practising teachers and interested parents, this highly accessible and innovative book provides sound, evidence-based advice and materials that can be used to help teach children about morphemes, and highlights the beneficial effects of this approach.