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Smart Moves Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head

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ISBN-10: 0915556375

ISBN-13: 9780915556373

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Carla Hannaford

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Now newly enlarged and updated, this groundbreaking book presents the body's role in thinking and learning in a popular readable style, thoroughly supported by scientific research. Biologist and educator Carla Hannaford tells us why we must move, and shows us how to move to fully activate our potential as learners. With over 100,000 copies sold, and translations in nine languages, Smart Moves is having a great and growing impact on learners of all ages, from the gifted to the so-called learning-disabled. Book jacket.
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Great River Books (formerly Great Ocean Publishers)
Publication date: 9/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Carla Hannaford, Ph.D. is a biologist and educator with more than thirty years of teaching experience, including twenty years teaching biology at the university level and four years as a counselor for elementary and intermediate school children with learning difficulties. She is an internationally recognized educational consultant, having presented more than six hundred lectures and workshops in thirty countries over the past seventeen years. She was selected as a guest educator with the AHP-Soviet Project in 1988, has been recognized by Who�s Who in American Education, and has received awards from the University of Hawaii and the American Association for the Advancement of Science for…    

Introduction
Preface to the Second Edition
Ways of Knowing
Learning Is Not All In Your Head
Neural Networks - Superhighways to Development
Sensory Experience
The Role of Emotions
Making Connections
Smart Moves
Movement
Moves that Improve
Nurturing and Protecting Our Learning Systems
What Goes Wrong?
Basics for the Brain: Water and Oxygen
Basics for the Brain: Nutrition
The Vestibular System and Learning Disorders
Fight or Flight - The Stress Effect on Learning
Mis-Education and The Labeling Game
Drugs and Hyperactivity
Looking Outward for Models
Notes
Index