Biosocial Education: The Social and Biological Entanglements of Learning

ISBN-13: 9780415787109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Deborah Youdell; Martin Lindley

Opis

Transforming the way we think about our students, our classrooms, teaching and learning, Biosocial Education draws on advances in genetics and metabolomics, epigenetics, biochemistry and neuroscience, to illustrate how new understandings of how bodies function can and must inform educational theory, policy and everyday pedagogical practices.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  List of tables and figures  Chapter 1: The social and biological entanglements of learning  Chapter 2: When biology and the social meet  Chapter 3: Optimizing humans  Chapter 4: Being human: brain-body-environment entanglements  Chapter 5: Feeling the classroom  Chapter 6: Biosocial assemblage: the case of Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder  Chapter 7: Biosocial learning  References  Index