Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, Health, and Education

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa is the author of 15 books on mind, brain, and education (MBE) science, and dozens of articles related to this nascent field. Her most recent works are Writing, Thinking and the Brain (2024), Questions Kids Ask About Their Own Brains (2024), Bringing the Neuroscience of Learning to Online Teaching (2021), Neuromyths (2018), and The Five Pillars of the Mind (2019). She has also authored articles for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the brain and technology and is a former member of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) expert panel to redefine teachers' new pedagogical knowledge. She is the founder of Connections: The Learning Sciences Platform, which provides evidence-based resources to teachers. Tokuhama-Espinosa has taught kindergarten through university and works with schools, universities, governments, and nongovernmental organizations in over 40 countries around the world. She seeks to improve the quality of education through research, teacher training, and student support. Her research areas include improved indicators to measure educational quality; learning in the digital age; the expansion of the field of MBE science; paradigm changes using appropriate technologies; bilingualism and multilingualism; and the general improvement of teacher training practices. Tokuhama-Espinosa's vision is to improve the social, democratic, and economic structures of countries through a better educated population. She believes that the quality of education is improved through research, teacher education, and student support.