12 brain/mind principles in action
Subtitle: the fieldbook for making connections, teaching, and the human brain
By: Renate Nummela Caine ... [et al.].
Contributors: Caine, Renate Nummela.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781412961066; 9781412961073
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of; Learning -- Physiological aspects; Brain; Teaching
Other titles: Twelve brain/mind principles in action
Notes: Rev. ed. of: 12 brain/mind learning principles in action, published in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: Why relaxed alertness provides the optimum emotional climate for learning; title: Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat, helplessness and fatigue; title: The brain/mind is social; title: The search for meaning is innate; title: Emotions are critical to patterning; title: Creating the richest learning environments using immersion in complex experience; title: The brain/mind processes parts and wholes simultaneously; title: All learning engages the physiology; title: The search for meaning occurs through patterning; title: Learning is developmental; title: How to help learners digest and consolidate learning; title: There are at least two approaches to memory. One is to store or archive and the other is to engage multiple memory systems in order to make sense of experience; title: Learning engages both focused attention and peripheral perception; title: Learning is both conscious and unconscious; title: Each brain is uniquely organized.