| Description |
xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Touchstone book |
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Touchstone book.
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| Contents |
Learning with the Whole Brain -- The Two-Sided Mind and Education -- Scientific Theory and Educational Practice -- Differences Between the Hemispheres -- A Model of Specialization -- Implications for Education -- Learning Styles and the Hemispheres -- Teaching Techniques for the Right Hemisphere -- How Do You Think? -- Strategies and Modes of Thinking -- Teaching Students Process Awareness -- Metaphor -- Advantages of Metaphorical Teaching -- Using Metaphor in the Classroom -- Visual Thinking -- Training Perception -- Graphic Representation -- Visualization -- Fantasy -- Experiencing Fantasy -- Observation Fantasies -- Identification Fantasies -- Fantasy as a Basis for Self-Expression -- Evaluating the Products of Fantasy -- Using Fantasy in the Classroom -- Further Applications -- Multisensory Learning -- Sensory Learning in the Early Primary Grades -- Sensory-Motor Integration -- Kinesthetic and Tactile Learning -- Kinesthetic Learning in Academic Subjects -- Kinesthetic Perception in Physical Learning -- Smell and Taste -- Nonverbal Auditory Learning (Music) -- Direct Experience -- Laboratory Experiments -- Field Trips -- Real Objects and Primary Source Material -- Simulation -- Role Playing -- How to Start -- Planning for Change -- Starting Now -- Intangibles -- Rediscovering Your Subject -- Personal Growth -- Working Together -- Support Groups |
| Notes |
"Originally published by Prentice-Hall, Inc."--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index |
| Subject |
Brain -- Localization of functions.
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Learning.
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Thought and thinking.
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| LC no. |
86003916 |
| ISBN |
0671622390 (paperback) |
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