
Sticky Learning
Description
Despite the introduction of new technologies for classrooms, many seminary courses still utilize primarily auditory methods to convey content. Course outcomes may include opportunities for learners to demonstrate knowledge and skills gained but may not include opportunities for learners to begin to embed knowledge and skills into their long-term memory.
Educators are engaging with neuroscientists to reshape classroom practices, content delivery, curriculum design, and physical classroom spaces to enhance students learning and memory, primarily in elementary and secondary education. Why not in seminary education?An overview of how learning occurs in our brain, what the different types of memory are, and how memory is created serves as a framework for suggesting pedagogical tools. These brain-friendly tools are specifically applied to individual academic disciplines, enabling instructors to make concrete modifications in the structure and content of what is taught, making learning more sticky.
Ingliss synopsis of the use of neuroscience in the classroom and suggested action is followed by a collaborative dialogue with Kathy L. Dawson and Rodger Y. Nishioka. Dawson and Nishioka provide practical commentary regarding the successful implementation of Ingliss proposed approach. As a group, Inglis, Dawson, and Nishioka create a text that extends pedagogical innovation in inspiring but practical ways.
Product Details
Publisher | Fortress Press |
Publish Date | November 01, 2014 |
Pages | 136 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781451488784 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.3 inches | 0.5 pounds |
About the Author
Kathy L. Dawson is associate professor of Christian education and director of the master of art in practical theology degree program at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, where she has taught for the last ten years. She is an ordained pastor and certified educator in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Kathy"s professional interests are in children"s ministry, teaching methodology, human development, and curriculum.
Holly J. Inglis has served as a pastor in the Society of Friends and as a Presbyterian church educator in Indiana and Colorado. She holds a master of divinity from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana and a doctorate in educational ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
Rodger Nishioka holds the Benton Family chair in Christian education as an associate professor at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. While he teaches in the area of Christian education and practical theology, he specializes in ministry with youth and young adults. Prior to his joining the faculty at Columbia, Rodger served for twelve years as denominational staff in youth and young adult ministry for the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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