Mind/Brain Learning Principles

Mind/Brain Learning Principles by Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine

This is a very interesting article. I'm not quite sure where the scholarship comes from, but it rings pretty true to me. Here are their principles

1. The brain is a complex adaptive system
2. The brain is a social brain
3. The search for meaning is innate
4. The search for meaning occurs through patterning
5. Emotions are critical to patterning
6. Every brain simultaneously perceives and creates parts and wholes
7. Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception
8. Learning always involves consious and uncouscious processes
9. We have at least two ways of organizing memory
10. Learning is developmental
11. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat
12. Every brain is uniquely organized

I'll keep this right next to my Bloom's Taxonomy. Learning is social, learning is complex and learning is unique -- good points to keep in mind.