Main Trends In Cognitive Research In Education In Usa, Canada And France (original) (raw)

2018, The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

The article deals with basic trends in cognitive research in education, which is in the progress in the USA, Canada and France now. The subjects of research are connected with emotions, memory, attention, thinking, educational problems, IT technology, etc. Lately much attention was paid to projects studying the role of emotions in the educational process and their influence on students’ cognitive development. The article describes various research carried out in the countries mentioned above, i.e. American courses in neuro-education, which may help teachers to use the results of cognitive research to work out their own methods of solving real educational problems. In Canada and France, much attention is devoted to studying factors influencing educational effectiveness and optimization of remembering processes. In France, there are a number of researches, which may help understand brain functions of younger schoolchildren in reading and mathematics. The results of these researches are published regularly, and every teacher may use it in his / her regular work. However, not all teachers wish to introduce the results of neuroscience research into their practice, and the governing bodies cannot impose on them to work in such a way. Therefore, in all countries engaged in cognitive research in the field of education, there is the problem of transferring knowledge from the field of neuropsychology and neuroscience to teachers that may be useful to them.