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What's the brain got to do with education?

10-29-2007 · EurekAlert!

Quite a lot -- according to teachers in a recent survey commissioned by the Innovation Unit and carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol. Although current teacher training programmes generally omit the science of how we learn, an overwhelming number of the teachers surveyed felt neuroscience could make an important contribution in key educational areas.

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