Mindleap: A Fresh View of Education Empowered by Neuroscience and Systems Thinking

by Jim Brown, Don Hanlon Johnson (Foreword)

In this thoroughly-researched and exquisitely crafted treatise, Jim Brown synthesizes the newest understandings in neuroscience, developmental psychology, and dynamical systems theory for educators and others committed to nurturing human development. He explains complex concepts in down-to-earth terms, suggesting how these understandings can transform education to truly engender optimal learning and intelligence. He explores the nature of consciousness, intelligence, and mind. Brown then offers a model of optimal human learning through life-long brain development within a supportive culture--drawing on the work of Piaget, Erickson, Maslow, Kohlberg, and Steiner--and how that work is being vastly expanded by neuroscience and dynamical systems thinking.Mindleap reveals how the innovative methods of neuroscience can be applied to create a system of education that is better able to meet the challenges of our accelerating world. Essential to this endeavor, Brown emphasizes, is understanding the value of enhancing self-actualization of learners within the context of relationship. He invites not only psychologists, educators, graduate and post-graduate students to explore this new model of thinking, but it also encourages other seekers and creators to join together in shaping a culture of life-long learning.— Susan S. Scott, PhD, Jungian Analytical Psychology practitioner, Author of Healing with Nature.

198 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 11, 2021

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Jim Brown, PhD