Bildung braucht Persönlichkeit. Wie Lernen gelingt

by Gerhard Roth

Gerhard Roth erklärt, woran die Bemühungen um Bildung und Weiterbildung scheitern: Die Erkenntnisse der Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften haben bisher keinen Eingang in unser Bildungssystem gefunden. Im Buch werden die wichtigsten Fragen zum Thema Bildung und Lernen beantwortet: Wie lernt der Mensch eigentlich? Warum sind Emotionen beim Lernen so wichtig und wie kann ich Begeisterung für einen Stoff wecken? Wie kann das Gelernte dauerhaft im Gedächtnis implantiert werden? Welche Rolle spielt die Sprache beim Lernen? Warum sind manche Lehrer erfolgreich, andere nicht?

Genres: Psychology

354 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2011

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Reviews

[Woflmao · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main part of the book is more or less a crash course on how the brain works, with some excursions into psychology. The main insights on education are only given in the last two chapters (11 and 12). In chapter 11, the author discusses many approaches to reform teaching in schools (in the German education system), and dismisses many of them, based not on his own neurosciences but on a famous meta-(meta-?)study by Hattie. In chapter 12, finally, Roth makes his own suggestions on how to improve teaching and education. A good education is mainly based on the skills and personality of the teacher, on his/her ability to structure the material, to motivate the students and to be credible in his/her own excitement about it. Learning also depends to a large part on a student's personality, so that it becomes important for a teacher to appeal to different personalities. Finally, it is important to combine different styles of teaching and make sure that there are enough repetitions of the material. All this may not sound too surprising, certainly no one would disagree with the sensibility of it. So one interesting aspect of the book is in which methods actually do not work, but for this one might also read Hattie's book.

[Julian H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5