ERIC Number: EJ1139264
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Principles of Curriculum Design and Construction Based on the Concepts of Educational Neuroscience
Watagodakumbura, Chandana
Journal of Education and Learning, v6 n3 p54-69 2017
With the emergence of a wealth of research-based information in the field of educational neuroscience, educators are now able to make more evidence-based decisions in the important area of curriculum design and construction. By viewing from the perspective of educational neuroscience, we can give a more meaningful and lasting purpose of leading to human development with enhanced consciousness or wisdom as the goal of a curriculum. We can better decide on the essential contents of a curriculum that is carried out within a limited time, using the emerging and validating information. Knowledge of educational neuroscience can also be used effectively for instructional design or conveying important messages to learners in the learning support material provided. Further, educators can be better directed in forming appropriate assessment so that learners are prepared for active and deep engagements in the teaching-learning process developing the skills of independence and discovery learning. Educational practitioners, as well as policy-makers, can also promote inclusive practices by directing, designing and constructing a curriculum appropriately especially taking into consideration the characteristics of right cerebral hemispheric oriented visual-spatial or gifted learners. Overall, education professionals can be benefited immensely to take more informed decisions in the process of curriculum design and construction by embracing emerging educational neuroscience principles.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Neurosciences, Individual Development, Educational Practices, Cognitive Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Memory, Psychomotor Skills, Transfer of Training, Taxonomy, Abstract Reasoning, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Constructivism (Learning), Difficulty Level, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Theory Practice Relationship
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Language: English
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