The Educated Brain
The ESRC funded Educated Brain seminar series comprised interdisciplinary seminars/workshops designed to share recent findings from neuroscience that are important for education and engage policy-makers with the emerging field of educational neuroscience in ways that are effective and meaningful.
This seminar series brought together a variety of stakeholders, including researchers in educational/cognitive neuroscience, teachers and policy-makers to understand theoretical issues as well as policy and practice implications.
This series is unique in that it is supported and coordinated by three University of Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centres and Strategic Research Initiatives: Cambridge Neuroscience, Cambridge Public Policy and Cambridge Language Sciences.
Objectives of the Educated Brain Seminar Series:
- Provide the context for inter-disciplinary conversations to occur amongst researchers from the wide variety of disciplines that could impact upon an educational neuroscience
- Engage policy-makers, educators and teachers from outside of academia with this research, both in terms of participating directly in our seminars and from access to the policy briefs that are prepared alongside each seminar
- Provide opportunities for early career researchers (e.g., PhD students, Post-Docs) to be trained and mentored in policy brief writing as well as to provide opportunities for them to interact with policy makers
Photos from our Policy Event
Teachers Resources
Resources for teachers
You can download the posters that were showcased in our Educated Brain event at Westminster in April 2018. Teaching teams may find that the various approaches described here can spark a conversation about their practice. We encourage you to browse the posters, and consider them with colleagues.
Here are some discussion prompts:
- Notice: Does this remind you of anything in your classroom or your practice?
- Compare: How would this change your usual routines?
- Try: What small changes could you try in your practice/ school to make this applicable?
- Reflect: If you have tried an approach like this, what benefits did you observe? What challenges did you face?
If you have any experiences using these resources that you would like to share with us, we would love to hear from you: coordinator@neuroscience.cam.ac.uk
Further resources for teachers relating education and neuroscience:
Download our teacher resources using the links below:
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