Educators need to know about the human brain

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-238

  Brandt, Ron ^a  

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References (27)

1. John T. Bruer, "In Search of . . . Brain-Based Education," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1999, pp. 649-57.
2. John T. Bruer, "Brain Science, Brain Fiction," Educational Leadership, November 1998, p. 14.
3. See also John T. Bruer, "Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far," Educational Researcher, November 1997, pp. 4-16.
4. Francis Crick, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul (New York: Scribner, 1994), p. 18.
5. John T. Bruer, The Myth of the First Three Years (New York: Free Press, 1999).
6. Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 68.
7. Leslie Brothers, Friday's Footprint: How Society Shapes the Human Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 48.
8. Bruer, "Brain Science, Brain Fiction," p. 18.
9. Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence (New York: Dutton, 1998).
10. Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 29.
11. Ibid., p. 35.
12. Diamond and Hopson, p. 63 (emphasis in the original).
13. Gazzaniga, p. 48.
14. Ibid., p. 9.
15. Ibid., pp. 13-15.
16. Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (New York: Norton, 1997), pp. 341-42. When I complained to Pinker about these comments, he replied in a personal message sent in May 1999 that "ultimately we do not disagree on much" and that in his future writings he would take my observations into account.
17. Learner-Centered Psychological Principles: A Framework for School Reform and Redesign (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1997).
18. Richard Restak, The Modular Brain (New York: Scribner, 1994), pp. 35, xvi-xvii.
19. Crick, p. 10.
20. Beverly A. Wright et al., "Deficits in Auditory Temporal and Spectral Resolution in Language-Impaired Children," Nature, 8 May 1997, pp. 176-78.
21. Marilyn J. Adams, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print (Urbana: Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois, 1990).
22. Gazzaniga, p. 10.
23. Stanislaus Dehaene, The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 139.
24. LeDoux, op. cit.
25. Candace Pert, Molecules of Emotion (New York: Scribner, 1997).
26. Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error (New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1994), p. 84.
27. Daniel L. Schacter, Searching for Memory (New York: Basic Books, 1996), p. 56.