Our goal is to provide a firm foundation of scientifically informed scholarship about the brain and apply that to issues of learning, child development, and education more generally. Over the past 15-20 years, neuroscience has gradually and increasingly impacted the study of learning and practice of education. However, from the beginning, there have been substantial concerns about the misapplication of often poorly understood brain science into school classrooms. Members of this group investigate mechanisms and neural correlates of learning and development using advanced technologies such as Electroencephalogram (EEG) and eye-tracking technology. The group is eager to discuss issues arising in the interface between neuroscience and education with wider community.
Our convenors: Dr Minkang Kim
Membership: Are you an active researcher in this area? Or perhaps you are a educator interested in learning more about educational neuroscience? Membership is free and gives you access to the latest news and events coming out of the Neuroscience and Education SIG.
Our goals:
To develop a strong empirical research program on neuroscience and education in Sydney.
To network across other centres of excellence in neuroscience and education in Australia and overseas.
To disseminate research findings into the wider educational community
The Neuroscience and Education Special Interest Group (Neuroscience and Education SIG) is home to researchers from diverse backgrounds, from teachers to scientists, united under this cause. The research groups within the SIG include:
Neuroscience and Education wins a grant for a seminar series which will highlight the importance of empathy for professionals in education and medical settings.
It is with great pleasure that the Centre’s Neuroscience and Education SIG is able to announce a successful 2018 Strategic Education Grant application. The grant of $12,000 will support a project Investigating the social and neurobiological comodulators of learning and wellbeing. The Project Leader is Dr. Minkang Kim, with co-investigators Professor Ian Hickie and Professor Adam Guastella of the Brain and Mind Centre and Professor Philip Poronnik of the Sydney Medical School.
As neuroscience continues to flourish there is a lot to be hopeful for in how this area of research might benefit education and learning. However, there has also been a history of skepticism: can neuroscience actually help, or does it simply offer pretty pictures of brains?