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How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching de Joshua R. Eyler

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Autor Joshua R. Eyler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2018
Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn.How Humans Learnaims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning.
The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry—curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure—devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781946684646
ISBN-10: 1946684643
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: West Virginia University Press
Colecția West Virginia University Press
Seria Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Recenzii

“Unique and compelling. Eyler brings lyrical prose and a truly fresh perspective to problems that have stubbornly persisted.”
Michelle D. Miller, author ofMinds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology

"Joshua R. Eyler, who directs the Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence, has done all teachers—and all people curious about learning—a major service with this book."
Chicago Tribune

"A splendid repository of ways to rethink how we teach college."
Los Angeles Review of Books

"A warm, humane little book—a scientifically informed reminder that even in college, students and teachers are really driven by emotion, anxiety, curiosity, and care." 
Daniel F. Chambliss, coauthor of How College Works

Notă biografică

Joshua Eyler is the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and adjunct associate professor of humanities at Rice University. He has a PhD in medieval studies from the University of Connecticut and has published on a range of topics, including evidence-based pedagogy, technology in the classroom, and disability studies.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments                                                                                                      
Introduction: How Human Beings Learn                                                              
Chapter 1: Curiosity                                                                                                
Chapter 2: Sociality                                                                                                    
Chapter 3: Emotion                                                                                                  
Chapter 4: Authenticity                                                                                               
Chapter 5: Failure                                                                                                       
Epilogue: There and Back Again                                                                           
Bibliography                                                                                                          
Index
 

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Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning.
The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry—curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure—devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.

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Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning.
The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry—curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure—devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.