With his knack for making science intelligible for the layman, and his ability to illuminate scientific concepts through analogy and reference to personal experience, James Zull offers the reader an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience.
Provides an engrossing and coherent introduction to what neuroscience can tell us about cognitive development through experience, and its implications for education. Arguing that educational change is underway and that the time is ripe to recognize that "the primary objective of education is to understand human learning” and that "all other objectives depend on achieving this understanding”, James Zull challenges the reader to focus on this purpose, first for him/her self, and then for those for whose learning they are responsible.
