Language and Cognition Seminar - The Practical and Principled Problems with Educational Neuroscience
14 March 2017, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Event Information
Location
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Chandler House, room G10
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Bowers School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Time: 1pm, 14 March 2017
Venue: Room G10, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF
The core claim of educational neuroscience is that neuroscience can improve teaching in the classroom. Many strong claims are made about the successes and the promise of this new discipline. By contrast, I show that there are no current examples of neuroscience motivating new and effective teaching methods, and argue that neuroscience is unlikely to improve teaching in the future.