Five Pillars of the Mind: Redesigning Education to Suit the Brain

Download or read book Five Pillars of the Mind: Redesigning Education to Suit the Brain written by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Neuromyths, a revolutionary look at teaching and learning via the logical pathways of the brain. A review of the research on brain networks reveals, surprisingly, that there are just five basic pillars through which all learning takes place: Symbols, Patterns, Order, Categories, and Relationships. Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa proposes that redesigning school curriculum around these five pillars—whether to augment or replace traditional subject categories—could enable students to develop the transdisciplinary problem-solving skills that are often touted as the ultimate goal of education. Heralding a potential paradigm shift in education, Five Pillars of the Mind explores how aligning instruction with the brain's natural design might just be the key to improving students' learning outcomes.