Neuroscience and Education: Issues and Opportunities

Abstract

This commentary builds on the work of the recent TLRP-ESRC seminar series on Neuroscience and Education, which brought together national and international educational and scientific experts to discuss how these two areas might work together in the future, particularly in regard to collaborative research. By the time of its conclusion in June 2006, over 400 teachers, educational researchers, psychologists and neuroscientists had attended one or more of the events in this series. Each event involved formal discussions about the theoretical and methodological issues arising within this emergent and interdisciplinary field of enquiry, and the opportunities that may lie ahead.