Emotions, Learning, and the Brain

Contents

Foreword by Howard Gardner

Introduction: Why Emotions Are Integral to Learning

PART I: WHAT ARE EMOTIONAL FEELINGS, AND HOW ARE THEY SUPPORTED BY THE BRAIN?

1. We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education

with Antonio R. Damasio

2. “Rest Is Not Idleness”: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education

with Joanna A. Christodoulou and Vanessa Singh

3. Implications of Affective and Social Neuroscience for Educational Theory

PART II: WHAT INSIGHTS CAN AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE OFFER ABOUT LEARNING AND TEACHING?

4. Neuroscience Bases of Learning

with Kurt W. Fischer

5. The Role of Emotion and Skilled Intuition in Learning

with Matthias Faeth

6. Musings on the Neurobiological and Evolutionary Origins of Creativity via a Developmental Analysis of One Child’s Poetry

7. A Tale of Two Cases: Lessons for Education From the Study of Two Boys Living With Half Their Brains

8. The Smoke Around Mirror Neurons: Goals as Sociocultural and Emotional Organizers of Perception and Action in Learning

9. Admiration for Virtue: Neuroscientific Perspectives on a Motivating Emotion

with Lesley Sylvan

10. Perspectives from Social and Affective Neuroscience on the Design of Digital Learning Technologies

with Vanessa Singh

Afterword by Antonio Damasio

Acknowledgments