learning and scholarship

Describes each of the eight intelligences by which people learn, and offers advice to teachers on how to appeal to the eight intelligences in order to help students move beyond memorization to a real understanding of facts and concepts and their application outside the classroom.

Collects nearly one hundred alphabetically arranged entries that discuss education and child development issues for kindergarten through twelfth grade students; and covers curriculum development, learning theories, the prenatal brain, classroom management, and more ; and includes cross-references, bibliography, and glossary.

Describes field-tested techniques teachers may use to engage students from kindergarten through high school in active learning, each with a descriptive overview, step-by-step instructions for implementation, ideas for advancing students beyond surface-level thinking, and suggestions for adapting the techniques to specific contexts and content areas.

Presents an integrated approach to teaching curriculum content, information literacy, and strategies for learning.

The story of how Irish scholars preserved Greek and Roman classics, Jewish and Christian writings, and other writings that might have otherwise been lost when the Roman Empire collapsed.

Chronicles the intellectual history of Western civilization since the classical period, focusing on key moments of cultural transformation, and considering how the past contributes to an understanding of the changes taking place in the twenty-first-century landscape of knowledge.

Describes the neurobiology of learning and memory, covering forms of learning, memory stages and organization, molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, learning and memory in invertebrates, long-term potentiation, and ways of enhancing and disrupting memory.

A comprehensive guide to multiple intelligences for teachers that explains what the multiple intelligences theory is, how it can be incorporated into the classroom, and why it is so important for a well-rounded curriculum, with practical strategies for MI lessons, centers, projects, theme units, and more.

Explores the many different intellectual achievements of humans throughout history.

Presents a comprehensive guide to improving academic performance through self-hypnosis and offers methods for overcoming some of the common roadblocks to learning.