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Development and Its Relation to Mind, Brain, and Education: Continuing the Work of Robbie Case

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The concluding chapter selectively discusses themes presented in the volume, commonalities, and differences among the ideas of different contributors. We first provide an overview of Robbie’s work, and then consider answers to three questions: How does mind develop? How does neuroscience add to cognitive and behavioral models of development? And what are the implications of cognitive neuroscience for education?

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    EEG coherence is a measure of “shared activity” between spatially separated brain regions (see Chapter “Higher-order network reworking—New findings”).

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    see Ferrari (2009a) for an overview of Piaget’s writings on this topic.

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    Of course, these relations of deep knowledge of human nature and its physical embodiment have been of concern to educators from the beginning of recorded history of philosophy, especially if we count proverbial advice and religious teachings about how to learn from others and from experience associated with the ancient wisdom schools of the ancient Middle East (Kugel, 2007) and ancient Greece (Hadot, 2002).

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Ferrari, M., Vuletic, L. (2010). Development and Its Relation to Mind, Brain, and Education: Continuing the Work of Robbie Case. In: Ferrari, M., Vuletic, L. (eds) The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3666-7_14

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