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Watt, Molly – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1981
Shows how having students write journals about their learning experiences was an effective teaching technique in the primary grades. (RL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Experience Approach, Learning Activities, Learning Experience
Weinstein, Claire – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1982
Recommends teaching learning-to-learn competencies simultaneously with the course content. Reviews competencies needed for effective learning in the areas of information processing, active study strategies, and self-management. Illustrates opportunities for instructors to teach learning competencies while presenting material or explaining course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Activities, Learning Experience, Learning Strategies
Download full textHanson, J. Robert – 1996
The brain's architecture serves as the basic model for theorizing about how the brain works. Current brain research confirms earlier suspicions that thoughtfulness has a great deal more complexity than the simplistic left/right distinctions of earlier research. This paper draws on the work of Carl Jung to propose the brain-psyche model as an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Curriculum
Jarvis, Peter – 1992
This book explores how learning is the lifetime quest to understand personal identity, purpose, and meaning while conforming and adapting to the perceived and real confines of a paradoxical society. It examines the complex social experience of learning, revealing how culture, gender, race, and other societal factors shape and mold an individual's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Continuing Education
Bruffee, Kenneth A. – 1999
This volume explores the academic issue: what is knowledge and what gives it its authority. The book makes three related points: (1) colleges and universities must think of themselves not as stores of knowledge but as institutions of reacculturation; (2) college and university professors must view themselves not as purveyors of information but as…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Colleges
Peer reviewedToumasis, Charalampos – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Described is the use of peer teaching, to help students to learn the difference between surface and meaningful learning and to provide feedback to the teacher. The advantages of peer teaching to teachers and students are listed. (KR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Learning Experience, Learning Strategies
Johnson, Leona M. – 2003
This publication presents reasons why attention to culture and learning is important in schools. It examines the relationship between culture and learning, and discusses how conflicts between the culture of the home and that of the typical classroom hinder the educational process for many children. It reviews examples of culturally sensitive…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
