M.Ed.Special and Inclusive Education (SIE): EDUCLD8-Brain, Mind, and Learning

Week 1

Required readings

• Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2015). The new science of teaching and learning: Using the best of mind, brain, and education science in the classroom. Teachers College Press.Chapter 1. The case for Neuroscience in the art of teaching

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 4: Pervasive Misunderstandings About Learning: How They Arise, and What We Can Do

Recommended readings

• Edelenbosch, R., Kupper, F., Krabbendam, L., & Broerse, J. E. (2015). Brain‐based learning and educational neuroscience: Boundary work. Mind, Brain, and Education, 9(1), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12066

• Sigman, M., Peña, M., Goldin, A. P., & Ribeiro, S. (2014). Neuroscience and education: prime time to build the bridge. Nature neuroscience, 17(4), 497. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3672.

Week 2

Required readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 2: Structure and Function of the Nervous System

Recommended readings

Illeris, K. (2018). Contemporary theories of learning. Routledge. Chapter 1: A comprehensive understanding of human learning

Week 3

Required readings

• Kolb, B., Whishaw, I. Q., & Teskey, G. C. (2014). An introduction to brain and behaviour. Worth Publishers. Chapter 8: How does the nervous system develop and adapt?
• Bathelt, J., Gathercole, S. E., Butterfield, S., CALM team, & Astle, D. E. (2018). Children's academic attainment is linked to the global organization of the white matter connectome. Developmental science. 21(5):e12662. doi: 10.1111/desc.12662.

Recommended readings

• Klingberg, T. (2013). The learning brain: Memory and brain development in children. Oxford University Press. Chapter 2: The growing brain: How the brain develops and matures

Diamond, A., & Whitington, V. (2015). Studying early brain development: Educators' reports about their learning and its applications to early childhood policies and practices. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(3), 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911504000303

Week 4

Required readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 5: Perception

Recommended readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry,R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapters 5 and 6

• Thye, M. D., Bednarz, H. M., Herringshaw, A. J., Sartin, E. B., & Kana, R. K. (2017). The impact of atypical sensory processing on social impairments in autism spectrum disorder. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 29, 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.04.010

Week 5

Required readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 12: Cognitive Control
• Houdé, O., & Borst, G. (2015). Evidence for an inhibitory-control theory of the reasoning brain. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 9, 148. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00148

Recommended readings

• Patael, S. Z., Farris, E. A., Black, J. M., Hancock, R., Gabrieli, J. D., Cutting, L. E., & Hoeft, F. (2018). Brain basis of cognitive resilience: Prefrontal cortex predicts better reading comprehension in relation to decoding. PloS one, 13(6), e0198791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198791

Week 6

Required readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 10 Emotion.

• Kragel, P. A., & LaBar, K. S. (2016). Decoding the nature of emotion in the brain. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(6), 444-455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.011

Recommended readings

• Etkin, A., Büchel, C., & Gross, J. J. (2015). The neural bases of emotion regulation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(11), 693. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn4044

• Dubois, J., Oya, H., Tyszka, J. M., Howard III, M., Eberhardt, F., & Adolphs, R. (2017). Causal mapping of emotion networks in the human brain: framework and initial findings. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.015

Gross, J. J. (2015). Emotion regulation: Current status and future prospects. Psychological Inquiry, 26(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2014.940781

Week 7

Required readings

• Koriat, A., Ma'ayan, H., & Nussinson, R. (2006). The intricate relationships between monitoring and control in metacognition: Lessons for the cause-and-effect relation between subjective experience and behavior. Journal of experimental psychology: general, 135(1), 36-69.
• Levine, B., & Craik, F. (2012). Mind and the frontal lobes: Cognition, behaviour and brain imaging. Oxford. Chapter 1: Unifying clinical, experimental and neuroimaging studies of the human frontal lobes.

Recommended readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 12: Cognitive Control
• Woodin, M., Schroer, J., & Bergen, D. (2017). Brain Research in Education and the Social Sciences: Implication for practice, parenting and future society. Routledge Chapter 10: Using neuroimaging and neurodiagnostic techniques to understand and improve brain functioning Neuroimaging studies

Week 8

Required readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2014). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. W.W. Norton. Chapter 13: Social Cognition
• Siegel, D. J. (2015). The developing mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are. Guilford Publications. Chapter 4: Emotion.

Recommended readings

• Woodin, M., Schroer, J., & Bergen, D. (2017). Brain Research in Education and the Social Sciences: Implication for practice, parenting and future society. Routledge.

• Chapter 6: Brain Development and Learning in the Elementary Years
• Chapter 7: Brain Development and Learning in the Middle Childhood Years

Week 9

Required readings

• Murphy, R., & Honey, R. (2016). The Wiley handbook on the cognitive neuroscience of learning. Wiley Blackwell. Chapter 7: Epigenetics of neural learning
• Illeris, K. (2018). Contemporary theories of learning. Routledge.  Chapter 1: A comprehensive understanding of human learning

Recommended readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 8: Planning Learning: Spaced Practice and Interleaving
• Rushby, N., & Surry, D. (2016). The Wiley handbook of learning technology. Wiley Blackwell. Chapter 2: How people learn

Murphy, R., & Honey, R. (2016). The Wiley handbook on the cognitive neuroscience of learning. Wiley Blackwell. Chapter 1: Introduction to Research on Learning

Week 10

Required readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 6: Attention
• Rusch, T., Korn, C. W., & Gläscher, J. (2017). A Two-Way Street between Attention and Learning. Neuron, 93(2), 256-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.01.005

Recommended readings

• Bourgeois, A., Chelazzi, L., & Vuilleumier, P. (2016). How motivation and reward learning modulate selective attention. In Progress in brain research, 229, 325-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2016.06.004

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 7: Attention

Wender, P., & Tomb, D. (2016). ADHD: A guide to understanding symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and changes over time in children, adolescents and adult. Oxford. Chapter 3: The causes of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Week 11

Required readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 7: Memory
• Gallistel, C. R., & Balsam, P. D. (2014). Time to rethink the neural mechanisms of learning and memory. Neurobiology of learning and memory, 108, 136-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.11.019

Recommended readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 9: Memory
• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 10: Reinforcement of Learning: Retrieval Practice
• Cameron, H. A., & Glover, L. R. (2015). Adult neurogenesis: beyond learning and memory. Annual review of psychology, 66, 53-81.  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-01500

Week 12

Required readings

• Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2018). Cognitive neuroscience: The biology of mind. 5^th Ed. W.W. Norton. Chapter 11: Language
• Krishnan, S., Watkins, K. E., & Bishop, D. V. (2016). Neurobiological basis of language learning difficulties. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(9), 701-714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.06.012

Recommended readings

• Kuhl, P. K. (2010). Brain mechanisms in early language acquisition. Neuron, 67(5), 713-727.    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.038
• Chai, X. J., Berken, J. A., Barbeau, E. B., Soles, J., Callahan, M., Chen, J. K., & Klein, D. (2016). Intrinsic functional connectivity in the adult brain and success in second-language learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(3), 755-761. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2234-15.2016
• Mayer, R. E., & Alexander, P. A. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of research on learning and instruction. Taylor & Francis. Chapter 2: Learning to read

Week 13

Required readings

• Merkley, R., & Ansari, D. (2016). Why numerical symbols count in the development of mathematical skills: Evidence from brain and behavior. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 10, 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.04.006

• Chu, F. W., vanMarle, K., & Geary, D. C. (2016). Predicting children's reading and mathematics achievement from early quantitative knowledge and domain-general cognitive abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 775.

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapter 9: Development of Understanding

Recommended readings

• Ashkenazi, S., Rubinsten, O., & De Smedt, B. (2017). Associations between Reading and Mathematics: Genetic, Brain Imaging, Cognitive and Educational Perspectives. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 600. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00600
• Boaler, J., Chen, L., Williams, C., & Cordero, M. (2016). Seeing as understanding: The importance of visual mathematics for our brain and learning. Journal of Applied & Computational Mathematics, 5(5), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4172/2168-9679.1000325
• Räsänen, P. (2015). Educational Neuroscience as a Tool to Understand Learning and Learning Disabilities in Mathematics. In EDM (p.7).
• Butterworth, B. (2018). Building the Foundation: Whole Numbers in the Primary Grades. Springer. Chapter 20: Low Numeracy: From brain to education.

Kadosh, R., & Dowker, A. (2015). The Oxford handbook of numerical cognition. Oxford. Dyscalculia: From brain to education.

Week 14

Required readings

• Robinson, R. (2017). Implications for Middle Schools from Adolescent Brain Research. American Secondary Education, 45(3), 29.
• Busso, D. S., & Pollack, C. (2015). No brain left behind: Consequences of neuroscience discourse for education. Learning, Media and Technology, 40(2), 168-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2014.908908

Recommended readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapters 11, 12, 13 - Tips for Teachers. Tips for Students, Tips for Parents.

• Taylor, K., & Marienau, C. (2018). Facilitating learning with the adult brain in mind: A conceptual and practical guide. Jossey-Bass. Chapter 9: Enhancing brain-aware practice with theory: Foundational theories of learning and development.

Week 15

Required readings

• Weinstein, Y., Sumeracki, M., & Caviglioli, O. (2018). Understanding how we learn: A visual guide. Routledge. Chapters 11, 12, 13 - Tips for Teachers. Tips for Students, Tips for Parents.

Nature Neuroscience

Developmental Science

Trends in cognitive sciences

Neuron

Psychological Inquiry

Journal of experimental psychology: general

 Learning, Media and Technology

Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Annual review of psychology

Mind, Brain, and Education

 Journal of Neuroscience

Journal of Applied & Computational Mathematics

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Psicología Educativa

English Teaching Professional

PLoS One