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Publication Date: 2008
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Scientific and Pragmatic Challenges for Bridging Education and Neuroscience
Varma, Sashank; McCandliss, Bruce D.; Schwartz, Daniel L.
Educational Researcher, v37 n3 p140-152 2008
Educational neuroscience is an emerging effort to integrate neuroscience methods, particularly functional neuroimaging, with behavioral methods to address issues of learning and instruction. This article consolidates common concerns about connecting education and neuroscience. One set of concerns is scientific: in-principle differences in methods, data, theory, and philosophy. The other set of concerns is pragmatic: considerations of costs, timing, locus of control, and likely payoffs. The authors first articulate the concerns and then revisit them, reinterpreting them as potential opportunities. They also provide instances of neuroscience findings and methods that are relevant to education. The goal is to offer education researchers a window into contemporary neuroscience to prepare them to think more specifically about the prospects of educational neuroscience. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Concepts, Neurolinguistics, Unified Studies Curriculum, Performance Factors, Speech Language Pathology, Dyslexia, Mathematics, Educational Research
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