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Updated Edition of Bestseller

A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom

Enhancing Cognitive and Social Development Through Collaborative Classroom Management

Second Edition
By: Robert Sylwester

Updated Edition of Best Seller!

Explore how brain research improves student-teacher dynamics in the classroom!

Expanding on his immensely popular first edition, experienced author and professor Robert Sylwester presents an updated and expanded second edition on the latest biological research and applies it to student-teacher dynamics in the classroom.

Critical policies and practices discussed for helping educators improve their understanding of student development include:

Exploring beliefs of a democratic society in today's classrooms
Incorporating a biological/ecological perspective in classroom management
Shifting the focus from classroom management to student-teacher collaborations that improve classroom dynamics and develop social skills

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761938118
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 192
Publication date: February 11, 2003

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Updated Edition of Best Seller!

Praise for the first edition:

"This is a book that should be required reading for students of education, teachers, and administrators. Dr. Sylwester provides the connecting link between research on the brain and the classroom. I would encourage educators to form book study groups to read, study, reflect, and apply what they find in this book."
Jerry Tollefson, Principal
Marquette Elementary School, Madison, WI

Explore how brain research improves student-teacher dynamics in the classroom!

Critical policies and practices discussed for helping educators improve their understanding of student development include:

Exploring beliefs of a democratic society in today's classrooms
Incorporating a biological/ecological perspective in classroom management
Shifting the focus from classroom management to student-teacher collaborations that improve classroom dynamics and develop social skills

Believing that students should experience as they learn, and teachers should observe, explore, and nurture their students, Robert Sylwester reveals the latest research on how the brain really works. Also available for use in conjunction with the book are a video and training guide to promote a deeper understanding of student-teacher dynamics in the classroom.

Key features

Update of a Corwin best-seller
Full-time presenter with high-profile presence at conferences and in the journal literature.
Updates neuroscience research and research from educational psychology.
Pairs with the author's video on Collaborative Classroom Management

Author(s)

Robert Sylwester

Robert Sylwester is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology. He has written 20 books and curricular programs and 200+ journal articles. His most recent books are The Adolescent Brain: Reaching for Autonomy (2007, Corwin Press) and How to Explain a Brain: An Educator’s Handbook of Brain Terms and Cognitive Processes (2005, Corwin Press). He received two Distinguished Achievement Awards from The Education Press Association of America for his syntheses of cognitive science research, published in Educational Leadership. He has made 1600+ conference and staff development presentations on educationally significant developments in brain/stress theory and research. Sylwester wrote a monthly column for the Internet journal, Brain Connection, throughout its 2000-2009 existence, and is now a regular contributor to the Information Age Education Newsletter (http://i-a-e.org/).

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

1. The Cultural Foundations of Classroom Management

Democracy and Education

21st-Century Challenges

Collaborative Classroom Management

2. The Biological Foundations of Classroom Management

Three Forms of Biological Inquiry

Key Biological Concepts

Cells and Classrooms

3. The Marvelous Interdependent Bodybrain That Schools Seek to Manage

The Principal Brain Systems

From Jungle to Classroom in Search of a Model

4. Collaboratively Expending Energy: Who's In Charge?

Childbirth, Childhood, and Classrooms

From Potential to Kinetic Energy

Self-Esteem, Impulsivity, and Aggression

Suggested Activities

5. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Space

Mapping Cognitive, City, and Classroom Space

How Many People Can You Stuff Into a Classroom?

A Classroom Is a Created World Surrounded by a Leaky Wall

Cauliflower in the Classroom

Suggested Activities

6. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Time

Life Span: Two Developmental Decades

A Year's Curricular Time

A Day in the Life

Suggested Activities

7. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Movement

Physical Movement

Change as Psychological Movement

Suggested Activities

8. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Range

Biologically Possible Ranges

Culturally Appropriate Ranges

In the End

References and Supplementary Readings

Index

Reviews

"Sylwester’s book offers research, theoretical perspectives, and suggested activities, all of which easily foster reflection on practices related to classroom management, this significant dimension of teaching."

Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books, April 2003

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