Editors:
- Provides a greater understanding of how the brain develops, functions and learns
- Shows how the understanding of the brain can be used to educate young children
- Gives insight into the importance of both heredity and the environment for young brains
- Provides specific strategies and approaches drawn from neuroscience that create effective learning environments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Educating the Young Child (EDYC, volume 7)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Information from neuroscience is growing and being properly used, and misused wich makes it imperative that educators receive accurate and practical information. This book provides the accurate and practical information educators (pre-service and in-service) and caregivers serving children birth through age 8 need to know. This volume takes a practical and cautionary stance. It reminds educators to consider the ethical implications of neuroscience when it is applied to education, reviews current findings from neuroscience and reveals the dangers of oversimplification and inappropriate extensions of neuroscience into curricula. It brings together a group of authors with varied expertise writing on an array of inter-related educational topics that will help educators use neuroscience to understand and address the cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral needs of all young children, including those with exceptionalities. They believe neuroscience can be insightful and useful to educators if applied ethically and with care. The book offers strategies educators and caregivers can use to affect children today and the adults they can become.
Keywords
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Multiple Intelligences
- attention difficulties
- brain development
- brain-based learning
- childhood education
- critical/sensitive periods
- developmental systems
- early childhood and neuroscience
- early childhood inclusion
- ethics of neuroscience
- gifted and talented
- human capital
- mind-brain education
- neural development
- learning and instruction
Editors and Affiliations
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, School of Education, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, USA
Leslie Haley Wasserman
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, Dept. of Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University, Glendale, USA
Debby Zambo
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Childhood and Neuroscience - Links to Development and Learning
Editors: Leslie Haley Wasserman, Debby Zambo
Series Title: Educating the Young Child
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6671-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6670-9Published: 18 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9456-6Published: 15 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6671-6Published: 03 June 2013
Series ISSN: 2543-0610
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0629
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 220
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Child and School Psychology, Neurosciences, Learning & Instruction, Developmental Psychology