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Why Mind, Brain, and Education Science is the “New” Brain-Based Education

23 March 2011 / Neuroeducation, Neuroscience, REA2011

An article in the Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s New Horizons for Learning includes an excerpt from a new book by Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D. Director of IDEA (Instituto de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje or Teaching and Learning Institute), and Professor of Education and Neuropsychology at the of the University of San Francisco in Quito,

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Neuroscience of Religious Experience Story

13 March 2011 / Neuroscience, REA2011, Religious Experience

Read Randall Stephens’ online article in Science and Religion Today with Patrick MacNamara who has worked on “developing an evolutionary approach to problems of brain and behavior and currently is studying the evolution of the frontal lobes, the evolution of the two mammalian sleep states (REM and NREM), and the evolution of religion in human

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David Hogue to Present at Annual Meeting

26 February 2011 / Conference Details, Empathy, Neuroscience, Presenters, REA2011, Religious Experience

David Hogue, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, will provide one of the keynote presentations at the annual meeting. Hogue is the author of Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Story, Ritual, and the Human Brain and several book chapters and journal articles exploring the intersection of ritual,

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Link for Program Proposals Now Available

19 February 2011 / Conference Details, REA2011

Members may now submit their proposals for Research Interest Group, Colloquium, or Workshop Presentations to the REA submission site. Look for more information as well as the link the link under the Call for Papers.

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty guest speaker at conference

10 December 2010 / Conference Details, Neuroscience, Presenters, REA2011, Religious Experience

NPR Correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty will speak at the 2011 REA Conference. Hagerty is author of the New York Times best seller, Fingerprints of God: In Search of the Science of Spirituality. Hagerty writes of her book: This book has been percolating in my subconscious for years, and finally burst to the surface demanding to

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Brain Matters Conference Call for Papers

10 December 2010 / Conference Details, REA2011

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 2 MAY 2011 2011 Annual Meeting of the Religious Education Association (An Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education) November 4-6, 2011 Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel & Suites, Toronto, ON. THEME: Brain Matters: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Diversity From President-Elect and Program Chair Dean Blevins: Ten years after the original “Decade

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