Dear colleague,

I believe that's the idea, research advances in the neurosciences may provide new tools to intervene with learning impairments and attention deficits. A great challenge we face, I believe, is to individualize and personilize these tools, massification and standardization of teaching is detrimentous to the children. We have to create new paradigms in education.

Sincerely,

Hércules R. Freitas

Missing from most training programs in Education is a fundamental understanding of nervous system principles and applications based on those principles. The nature of neuroplasticity and how enriched environments can be developed to facilitate learning, the effect of movement and exercise on memory and retention, circadian issues that relate to when the school day starts for teenagers, where to optimally place pictorial information in textbooks, why do we have classroom learning sitting down and not while moving on a treadmill, why are desks and chairs not built according to ergonomic principles to facilitate learning, why are classes fifty minutes and not twenty, what is the effect of sleep on retention, optimization of associative learning mechanisms and the list can go on are all issues that are not represented adequately in traditional education training programs.

Neuroeducation needs to be developed as a discipline and then neuroplasticity may be more likely to optimize school-based learning.

I am attaching a file that overviews some of these notions.

If we take into consideration the role of brain function and the easy way to let the courses be clear for the student by mixing neuroscience and education I think we can reduce the numbers of failers in school