Module B: Human Development
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Module B: Human Development
Brain and Language DevelopmentEducation Foundations, 2012
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Overview• Brain development: neuroscience and education
• The brain’s physical structure• Brain development• Brain development and environment• Neuroscience and education• Limitations of neuroscience
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• Language development Language as a social and psychological tool
Language development in adolescence
Language development and environment
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Brain Development: Neuroscience and Education
• The brain’s physical structures
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The neuron receives messages through its dendrites and passes messages along its axons and across the synapse to other cells (Krause, et al., 2010)
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Brain development
• Generation of new cells
• Synaptogenesis
• myelination
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Brain development and environment
• ‘Pruning’ of synaptic networks
• Language and thinking
• Mother-infant interaction
Applications of neuroscience in education
• Working memory
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Applications of neuroscience in education, cont’d
• Emotion and thinking
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Applications of neuroscience in education, cont’d
• Connections in thinking: multiple representations, perspectives and prior knowledge
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Applications of neuroscience in education, cont’d
• Attention and mental visualisation
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Limitations of neuroscience
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• Study of human potentials vs. Study of developmental status quo
Language: a social and psychological tool
• Social interaction
• Acquisition of academic skills and concepts
• Development of consciousness and self- regulation
Language development in adolescence
• 5 language systems: Phonology; Semantics; Morphology; Syntax; and Pragmatics
• Development in adolescence: Vocabulary Syntax Metalinguistic awareness Abstract thinking
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Language development and environment
• Joint attention
• Language input
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Implications for teachers• Student-teacher and peer interaction
• Conceptual talks
• Student-directed interaction
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