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Your Brain on Childhood - Couverture souple

Principe, Gabrielle

 
9781616144258: Your Brain on Childhood
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1616144254 ISBN 13 : 9781616144258
Editeur : G38-Prometheus, 2011

Synopsis

This book reviews the consequences of raising children in today’s highly unnatural environments and suggests ways in which parents can learn to naturalize childhood again, so that a child’s environment gels with how the brain was designed to grow. In a clearly presented, accessible narrative, the author marshals scientific evidence from a wide array of fields to explain why there is a disconnect between the brain’s evolutionary history and the technology-centered present. Research from both human and animal studies indicates that brain development is fostered by consistent opportunities for face-to-face communication and freewheeling pretend play.

The startling implication is that today’s structured, controlled, and fabricated surroundings are exactly wrong for developing brains. Instead of emphasizing technology and organized activities, parents and teachers could better help children learn by encouraging exploration, experimentation, and exposure to the real world. Recess, now often dismissed as a waste of time, should be considered an essential part of children’s cognitive and social development; lessons should be individualized as much as possible; and the current focus on homework and letter grades should be de-emphasized and eventually eliminated altogether.

Fascinating and controversial, this well-researched discussion by an expert on child development will make parents and school systems rethink how we are raising our children.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gabrielle Principe, PhD (Spring City, PA), is associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Ursinus College. She is the author (with A. F. Greenhoot, and S. J. Ceci) of the forthcoming Children’s Memory: Psychology and the Law, in addition to numerous articles in scientific journals.

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Éditeur
G38-Prometheus
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1616144254
ISBN 13 
9781616144258
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
338
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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