Educational Neuroscience: Development Across the Life Span By Michael S. C. Thomas, Denis Mareschal and Iroise Dumontheil is an English-language printed textbook. It focuses on the application of educational neuroscience to improve teaching practices and learning outcomes.
This book offers a current overview of development in educational neuroscience from a life-span perspective. The authors and their international team present scientifically grounded insights and translate them into recommendations for classroom practice. Four main themes are addressed: individual differences in learning performance, the nature of these differences across different developmental stages, opportunities for cognitive enhancement, and the implementation of research findings in education, including ethical issues.
Specific topics covered include, among others, neuropsychological explanations for socioeconomic inequalities in school performance, reading difficulties, phonological skills, executive functioning, and emotional development.
This reference work connects with fields such as child, developmental, and lifespan psychology, neuroscience, and educational psychology.
Series: Frontiers of Developmental Science