How Learning Happens – EDU 2103

Description:

This course explores and analyzes how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. It helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principles, with the goal of creating classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient psyches.

Prerequisite:
1st year student

Learning Objectives:

Analyze how secure attachment and supportive relationships are critical for healthy psychological development and the building of social brain networks
Analyze the brain as a social organ of adaptation critical to cognitive development
Identify techniques to succeed with difficult or “unteachable” students
Analyze teaching from the perspectives of social neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology
Create classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient psyches.

Recommended Text:
The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom. Louis Cozolino, 2013.