12 brain/mind learning principles in action
Subtitle: developing executive functions of the human brain
By: Renate Nummela Caine ... [et al.] ; foreword by Arthur L. Costa.
Contributors: Caine, Renate Nummela.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2009
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 learning principles in action
Notes: Rev. ed. of: 12 brain/mind learning principles in action, published in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-280) and index.
Table of contents: value: Getting started; value: Why relaxed alertness provides the optimum emotional climate for learning; value: Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat, helplessness, and fatigue; value: The brain/mind is social; value: The search for meaning is innate; value: Emotions are critical to patterning; value: Creating the richest learning environments using immersion in complex experience; value: The brain/mind processes parts and wholes simultaneously; value: All learning engages the physiology; value: The search for meaning occurs through patterning; value: Learning is developmental; value: Helping learners digest and consolidate learning; value: There are at least two approaches to memory; value: Learning engages both focused attention and peripheral perception; value: Learning is both conscious and unconscious; value: Each brain is uniquely organized; value: Resources.