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Education and the Brain: A Bridge Too Far
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terms of informing classroom practice. There is, however, a science of mind, cognitive science, that can serve as a basic science for the development of an applied science of learning and instruction. Practical, well-founded examples of putting cognitive science into practice already exist in numerous schools and classrooms. Teachers would be better off looking at these examples than at speculative applications of neuroscience.
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- Authors
- Bruer, J. T.
- Venue
- Educational Researcher
- Published
- 1997-11
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 4-16
- ISSN
- 0013-189X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-102X
- OpenAlex
- W1977726653
- Cited by
- 652
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 5.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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