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June 2009 Dana Foundation brain research |
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June 2009, Dana Research News
Brain Scientists Identify Close Links between Arts, Learning, by Ben Mauk
The Arts Will Help School Accountability by Mariale Hardiman
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The Arts Will Help School Accountability
Commentary by Mariale Hardiman
Federal and state policy makers should expand their view of what constitutes an effective school based on the evidence of science and of experience, proposes a neuroeducation specialist at Johns Hopkins University. For example, at the school she ran in Baltimore, "as teachers designed arts-integrated lessons that fostered creative thinking, a transformation occurred in the school."
Why the Arts Matter
Jerome Kagan Gives Six Good Reasons for Advocating the Importance of Arts in School
“It is not possible to live by rationality alone," said cognitive-research pioneer Jerome Kagan during the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference in Baltimore.
Dana Press Blog
Wanted: A Neuroeducation Teaching Model
At the Learning, Arts, and the Brain conference, Nancy Grasmick, Maryland state superintendent of schools, challenged the audience of teachers and educators to create a “teaching model” of neuroeducation. Also, a composer’s musical meditation on the mind and a Learning & the Brain conference presentation both ask “big questions” of neuroscience.
See also
Music and the Brain
The connection between baby talk and music. Insights into how great jazz players improvise. Music strong enough that it might drive people to kill.
The “Music and the Brain” lecture series that started this month at the Library of Congress, sponsored in part by the Dana Foundation, demonstrates just how far researchers have come in understanding the physical processes behind mental abilities—and how far is left to go.
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