Review by Choice Review
Neuroscience provides educators with new ways to look at how the brain receives, processes, and retains information. Brain-based teaching and learning, based on neuroscience, has been evolving and developing for about 30 years. Tokuhama-Espinosa's is an artful exploration of this new field and a well-researched study into its history, rudimentary framework, and possibilities. While her beginning chapters explain the history of the movement, Tokuhama-Espinosa (San Francisco Univ. of Quito, Ecuador) also includes a meaty reference portion and a historical glossary of contributors to the field, thus giving readers a very comprehensive background in brain-based education's developmental path. She clarifies the emergent language of brain-based education through very readable explanations and includes a section on human survival and life skills, as well as an extensive glossary of discipline-related terms. A differentiating aspect of this work is that the author culls misperceptions and neuromythology from facts supported by investigative science, which helps her readers distill the truth about the promise, potential, and best practices of brain-based education from the fiction that sometimes surrounds the field. While impeccably researched and meaty, this work is written so it can be readily understood by educators from all levels. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. L. O. Wilson emerita, University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point
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