The Neuroscience of Learning and Development (eBook, PDF)

Enhancing Creativity, Compassion, Critical Thinking, and Peace in Higher Education
Redaktion: Bresciani Ludvik, Marilee J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book harnesses what we have learned from innovations in teaching, from neuroscience, experiential learning, and studies on mindfulness and personal development to transform how we deliver and create new knowledge, and indeed transform our students, developing their capacities for adaptive boundary spanning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000973136
• Artikelnr.: 68356357

Autorenporträt

Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik is Professor for Postsecondary Education and Co-Director of the Center for Educational Leadership, Innovation, and Policy, San Diego State University. She was formerly Assistant Vice President for Institutional Assessment at Texas A&M University. She has conducted outcomes assessment for programs and courses and is frequently invited to present assessment workshops nationally and internationally. Ralph Wolff is President of the Senior College Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), a role he assumed in 1996. Prior to joining WASC, he founded and directed the Institute for Creative Thinking, which focused on leadership and change, an emphasis that has carried over to his work at WASC. During his term as president, he has led WASC to the forefront of accreditation as an agent of accountability and innovation by transforming the accreditation process to an outcomes and learning based model. His current efforts at the Commission include a redesign of the accreditation process that focuses on retention and graduation, defining degree outcomes more clearly, and opening the accreditation process to greater transparency. Gavin W. Henning is Professor of Higher Education at New England College in New Hampshire where he directs the Master of Science in Higher Education Administration and Doctorate of Education programs. Gavin is a past president of ACPA - College Student Educators International as well as a past president of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). He has over 20 years' experience in higher education assessment and institutional research and frequently consults and presents regionally, nationally, and internationally on the topic. His scholarship includes over 90 peer-reviewed presentations and over 90 invited presentations and keynotes regarding assessment. In addition, he has published articles and books on assessment including Student Affairs Assessment:

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword-Gavin W. Henning Foreword-Ralph Wolff Acknowledgments
Preface-Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik Introduction. Rethinking How We Design,
Deliver, and Evaluate Higher Education-Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik 1. Basic
Brain Parts and Their Functions-Matthew R. Evrard, Jacopo Annese, and
Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik, with review by Mark Baxter and Thomas Van
Vleet 2. Unpacking Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis-Matthew Evrard and
Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik, with review by Thomas Van Vleet 3. Strategies
That Intentionally Change the Brain-Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik, Matthew R.
Evrard, and Philippe Goldin, with review by Thomas Van Vleet 4.
(Re)Conceptualizing Meaning Making in Higher Education. A Case for
Integrative Educational Encounters That Prepare Students for
Self-Authorship-Emily Marx and Lisa Gates 5. Intentional Design of
High-Impact Experiential Learning-Patsy Tinsley McGill 6. Enhancing
Well-Being and Resilience-Christine L. Hoey 7. Enhancing Creativity-Shaila
Mulholland 8. Enhancing Compassion and Empathy-Sara Schairer 9. Balance
Begets Integration. Exploring the Importance of Sleep, Movement, and
Nature-Bruce Bekkar 10. Enhancing and Evaluating Critical Thinking
Dispositions and Holistic Student Learning and Development Through
Integrative Inquiry-Marilee J. Bresciani Ludvik, Philippe Goldin, Matthew
R. Evrard, J. Luke Wood, Wendy Bracken, Charles Iyoho, and Mark Tucker 11.
Mindfulness at Work in Higher Education Leadership. From Theory to Practice
Within the Classroom and Across the University-Les P. Cook and Anne Beffel
12. A Mindful Approach to Navigating Strategic Change-Laurie J. Cameron
Afterword. Adoption, Adaptation, and Transformation-Marilee J. Bresciani
Ludvik About the Editor and Contributors Index