
Autumn 2011 Vol.5 No.1 - Mind, Brain and Education: Implications for Educators
This issue shows the convergence among the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience, how this is deepening what we know about learning, and how this can contribute to more meaningful experiences in classrooms and beyond.

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Table of Contents
- 7 • Statement of Purpose
- 8 • Review Board
- 9 • Editorial
Lynn Butler-Kisber - 19 • Commentary: How New Research on Learning Is Re-writing How Schools Work and Teachers Teach
Renate N. Caine & Geoffrey Caine - 27 • Commentary: The Need for a Deeper Exploration and Conceptual Understanding: The Critical Role of Creativity and Collaboration in Real-World Learning
R. Keith Sawyer
- 37 • Commentary: Mind, Brain and Education: The Impact of Educational Neuroscience on the Science of Teaching
David A. Sousa - 45 • Brain, Mind, and the Organization of Knowledge for Effective Recall and
ApplicationO. Roger Anderson - 63 • Your Mind on Music: Muffins, Magic, Mozart, Myth
Jean Emmerson
- 71 • The Teenage Brain and Technology
Sheryl Feinstein - 85 • Mind, Brain and Education: The Birth of a New Science
Michel Ferrari & Hazel E. A. McBride
- 101 • Executive Function in the Classroom: Neurological Implications for Classroom Intervention
Harriet Greenstone - 115 • We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang & Antonio Damasio
- 133 • Musings on the Neurobiological and Evolutionary Origins of Creativity via a Developmental Analysis of One Child's Poetry
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang with Nora Ming-Min Yang
- 141 • Designing a Robot's Brain: An In-Class Learning Task
Susan Kerwin-Boudreau
- 149 • Yearning for Words, Learning With Words: Poetic Ruminations
Carl Leggo
- 156 • Supporting Emotional Regulation in Elementary School: Brain-Based Strategies and Classroom Interventions to Promote Self-Regulation
Ann-Bailey Lipsett
- 177 • Using Brain Research and the Experience of Knitting Socks in Teacher Education
Zabe MacEachren
- 193 • The Impact of Visual Frameworks on Teacher Candidates' Professional Reflection
Nancy Maynes & Lynn Julien-Schultz - 211 • The Impact of Emotions on Divergent Thinking Processes: A Consideration for Inquiry-Oriented Teachers
Krista C. Ritchie, Bruce M. Shore, Frank LaBanca & Aaron J. Newman - 227 • Theorizing an Integration of Reading and Mathematics: Solving Mathematical Word Problems in the Elementary Grades
William H. Rupley, Robert M. Capraro, & Mary Margaret Capraro
- 251 • The Power of Mindset in Shaping Student Success
Megan Webster & Nathalie Bossé - 259 • Nurturing Students' Brains for the Future
Judy Willis
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