The Social Neuroscience of Education: Optimizing Attachment and Learning in the Classroom

by Louis Cozolino

Book Overview

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

Cozolino investigates what good teachers do to stimulate minds and brains to learn,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393706095
• ISBN13: 9780393706093
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"