- 1. BJEP Current Trends Conference Series 2010 Educational
Neuroscience: An Emerging Discipline
2. EDUCATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE:An Emerging Discipline Dyscalculics
have reduced grey matter density here 3. Gap between basic research
and educational applications From Scopus data base No. of papers
Year 4. Gap between basic research and educational applications
From Scopus data base No. of papers Year Published studies of brain
activity in children AND education child AND fMRI OR ERP 5. To
bridge the gap we need to build a new discipline 6. Cognitive
neuroscience Pedagogic intervention Behavioural data Educational
Psychology Educational Neuroscience Informs Generates Informs
Informs Informs Informs Informs Informs 7. Embedding the new
discipline
- The Centre for Educational Neuroscience
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- UCL-Birkbeck-IOE collaboration since 2008
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- Workshops, seminars, meetings, courses, researchstudies
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- Website( www.educationalneuroscience.org )
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- Wikipedia article(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Neuroscience )
8. Educational Neuroscience&EducationalPsychology Norah
Frederickson, UCL 9. The Rationale
- Neuroscience has the potential to make important contributions
to education. These potential contributions are of at least three
kinds:
- novel understanding about the biological and environmental
processes determining learning;
- the identification of early neural markers for educational
risk; and
- neural methods for evaluating different teaching approaches,
remediation packages or educational debates
- ( Foresight Project ReportSR-E1, p2)
10. The Challenge
- The Foresight Report recognises that the potential of
neuroscience is not yet realized, and identifies a key
challenge:
- The rather different philosophies underpinning education and
the natural sciences are impeding this engagement (Ib).
- This conference brings together Educationalists,
Neuroscientists and Psychologists to promote dialogue in attempting
to tackle this challenge.
11. The challenge of applying psychology
- You make a great, a very great mistake if you think that
psychology, being the science of minds laws, is something from
which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of
instruction for immediate classroom use.Psychology is a science and
teaching is an art: and sciences never generate arts directly out
of themselves.An intermediary inventive mind, must make the
application, by using its originality.
12. Educational Psychologists a crucial link ?
- A group of professionals who apply psychology to promote
childrens learning and development, predominately within
educational settings and working with teachers
- Educational Psychologists could be ideally placed to play a
crucial role in the development of Educational Neuroscience.
13. Interactive factors (IF) frameworkSource: Frederickson &
Cameron (1999) 14. Trauma, abuse, etc. (Dodge) Coercive
parenting(Patterson) Hostile attribution biases/motives Biased
responseevaluations Amygdala dysfunction Frontal dysfunction
Dysfunctional VIM (Blair) Executive dysfunction (Caspi &
Moffit) Antisocial behaviour (CP/APD) Particular cognitive
processing. Integrative causal model on conduct disorder (From
Krol, Morton & De Bruyn, 2004) 15.
- How should educational psychologists use neuroscience?
- What use is neuroscience to educationalpsychologists?
- What do educational psychologists want toknow from
neuroscientists?
- How can educational psychologists helpneuroscientists to help
them?
Anticipating Question Time Housekeeping 16. BJEP Current Trends
Conference Series 2010 How should Educational Psychologists use
Neuroscience?