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The Learning Cycle: Insights for Faithful Teaching from Neuroscience and the Social Sciences is unavailable, but you can change that!

How teachers teach is not necessarily how learners learn. Educators generally focus on content delivery. But much of the learning process involves affective and behavioral factors that shape learners’ outcomes. Veteran educators Muriel and Duane Elmer provide a holistic model for how learning takes place. Their learning cycle moves beyond mere recall of information to helping learners value and...

content and experience, knowing truth and doing truth. However it is stated, the end product is the same: the linking of life in the classroom to life in society. They must be seen as close friends, mutually informing and transforming the other. Taxonomies of learning have been around for some time. We mention two specifically. First, that developed by Krathwohl and Bloom, first published in the mid-1950s, has been widely used and updated.4 This model provided the foundation for
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