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A Child's Brain
The Impact of Advanced Research on Cognitive and Social Behavior
Copyright Year 1984
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Offers research on the development, organization, and operation of the child’s brain.
Table of Contents
Contents Preface
- Introduction
- The Neurosciences and the Education Profession: Inserting New Knowledge of a Child’s Developing Brain into an Already Well-Developed School
- Brain Structure
- Brain Evolution: The Origins of Social and Cognitive Behaviors
- Brain Structure and Development
- Higher Brain Function
- Hemispheric Specialization and Functional Plasticity During Development
- Impact on Learning Behaviors
- Cognitive Levels Matching: An Instructional Model and a Model of Teacher Change
- Constructivism and Education: The Child’s Point-of-View
- The Relationship Between Language Development and Brain Development
- Memory Development
- Cognitive Rehabilitation and the Head-Injured Child
- The Assessment of Cognitive Function for Use in Education
- Future Issues
- The Impact of Brain Research on the Education Profession: Agents of Change
- Reference Notes Included