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Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head
Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.
Item #:
9780915556373
Price:
$18.95
This internationally acclaimed book brings the latest insights
from scientific research to examine the body's role in
learning, from infancy through adulthood. Carla Hannaford
presents the mounting scientific evidence that movement is
crucial to learning. With real-life poignant examples, she
exposes the effect of traditional educational practices that
ignore this link.
Smart Moves explores the many factors that contribute to
the
growing plague of learning disabilities: TV viewing, different
foods, environmental factors, as well as the devastating
effects of stress, and its consequent production of
neurochemicals like cortisol that inhibit learning.
Dr. Hannaford offers clear alternatives and remedies that
people can put into practice right away to make a real
difference in their ability to learn.
She advocates more enlightened educational practices for homes
and schools including: a more holistic view of each learner;
less emphasis on rote learning; more experiential, active
instruction; less labeling of learning disabilities; more
physical movement; more personal expression through arts,
sports and music; less prescribing of Ritalin and other drugs
whose long term effects are not even known.
Smart Moves also offers instructions for performing the
Brain
Gym movements. These are simple, coordinated exercises that
help build neural pathways so critical to learning and help
reverse the effects of neural damage in a natural drug free
way.Book, 272 pages.
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