This article in TES is a follow up to the earlier blogpost by Dorothy Bishop and a critical, must-read as it states that while funding for educational neuroscience projects is booming, dr Bishop warns that the results will do little to improve children’s learning.
“They want something that will be applicable now in the classroom with a neuroscience basis,” she said. “That is a very hard criterion to meet.
“When you push these people and say ‘OK, what can you give me [as a good example of neuroscience that would work in the classroom]?’ most of what it is, is really psychology rather than neuroscience.”
Do notice that the professor isn’t pessimistic:
“Professor Bishop did not rule out the possibility of neuroscience becoming more useful for teachers in the future. “But I just feel at the moment that people are sort of assuming you can leap from the brain to teaching, and we have got all these steps in between to fill in,” she said.”