Brain Science for Principals: What School Leaders Need to Know

Authors : Khalid ARAR

Pages : 123-126

Doi:10.30828/real/2018.1.5

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Publication Date : 2018-07-27

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :Although there is abundant literature on school leadership and management, including the important books by Doyle and Zakrajsek dealing with epistemological, content-oriented and technical aspects of educational neuroscience, and learning addressed to college students, and works by Wilson & Conyers insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2013); and Linda Lyman insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2013); that specifically spoke to teachers and educational leaders, there is significant debate about the value of brain science research for education and educational leadership, The book described here relates to the developments of brain science research and its connection to teaching/learning, and the basic and essential technology of the processes that schools promote, when the school principal`s work is expected to be directed to ensuring high-quality teaching-learning   In the editor’s words, this book “emerged as a culminating project requiring real learning that would be a real challenge and by filling a gap could make a real difference
Keywords : brain science, principals