NEUROSCIENCE CHAPTER
As science and technology advances, educational knowledge and pedagogies would be incomplete without taking into consideration the aspects of both neurobiology and functionality of our brain. The neurons connect as a child learns and adapts to his/her environment. The connection of the neurons will be strengthened when the same environment reinforces the same requirement. The connection that is underutilised will be pruned away. This function of the neurobiology is known as ‘plasticity’. The brain is a plastic that allow a person to adapt to its environment.
However, the strengthened connection of the neurons in the child will form the fundamental architectural framework of the brain. Subsequently connections between neurons will build on this fundamental architecture. It is also this architectural framework of the brain that forms the basic personality and character of a child, which include the emotions, thinking processes, social skills, curiosity, motivations etc.
The brain is the most complex organ of human anatomy. As you are reading this paragraph, new discovery about the brain is made every moment, making our understanding of our complex organ more complete. This chapter aims to share knowledge of neuroscience with its members and to allow our members to provide a better education to our children.