The Importance of Environment

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The Importance of Environment

Finding from brain researcher indicate how nurturing is crucial to the learning process and are beginning to provide indication of appropriate learning environments.

Many of environmental factors conducive to improved brain functioning are every matters:

• The quality of social environment and interactions.


• Nutrition.


• Physical exercise.


• Sleep.

Which may seen too obvious and easily overlooked in their impact in the education.

By conditioning our minds and our bodies correctly, it is possible to take advantage of the brain´s potential for plasticity and to facilitate the learning process.

This is calls for holistic approaches which recognise the close interdependence of physical and intellectual well-being and the close interplay of emotional and cognitive.

"Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science", 2007, page 14