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Module B: Human Development
Brain DevelopmentEducation Foundations, 2012, Semester 1
Grad. Dip. in Education
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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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