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Elena M. Galeano Weber; Rebecca Aissa; Vera Moser; Marcus Hasselhorn – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
An important aspect of current practice in special educational need (SEN) assessment is the review and allocation to a particular focus of support. This study examines how specific such classifications are at least in the German practice by analysing coded text information regarding children's characteristics as well as environmental conditions…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Classification, Student Characteristics, Physical Environment
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Sijie Wang – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2025
The success of the Alliance Française in the United States inspired Germany to enhance its relations with the USA from a cultural perspective. Germany's own cultural policy traditions and its foreign cultural policy practices provided the theoretical basis for the development of a cultural policy towards the USA. Germany, which firmly believed in…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Intellectual Development, Global Approach, Nationalism
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Hefter, Markus H.; Renkl, Alexander; Riess, Werner; Schmid, Sebastian; Fries, Stefan; Berthold, Kirsten – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Argumentative thinking requires not only the "skill" to apply argumentative strategies such as supporting theories with evidence but also the "will" to apply these strategies by considering argumentative thinking to be both reasonable and worthwhile. Focusing on direct instruction for the initial acquisition of both skill and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Intervention, Thinking Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Levenson, Alan T. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
Levenson presents Nehama Leibowitz (1903-1997) as a principal figure in making the Bible a centerpiece of modern Jewish intellectual life. Complementing the already impressive literature on Leibowitz's pedagogical techniques, Levenson emphasizes the interdependence of Leibowitz's historical context, biography, and exegetical stance. Leibowitz's…
Descriptors: Jews, Literary Criticism, Foreign Countries, Biblical Literature
Jolly, Jennifer L.; Bruno, Justin – Gifted Child Today, 2010
The past several centuries have presented well-documented cases of prodigious youth. Many represented extreme examples of children who had burned brightly and then faded into obscurity, succumbed to a mental illness or an early death, or entered into a career deemed below their mental capacity. These very public displays of mental prowess caused…
Descriptors: Gifted, Mental Health, Intellectual Development, Foreign Countries
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Veysey, Laurence – History of Education Quarterly, 1973
German-American intellectual relations from the nineteenth century to the present are discussed in this literature review of books dealing with German refugees to the United States, the German academic system, and the German intelligentsia. (JH)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Biographies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange
Reisener, Helmut – Neueren Sprachen, 1975
Deals with problems arising in teaching English in the Hauptschule ("practical branch" secondary school, grades 7-10). Discusses, among other things, cultivation of the ability to understand the FL as a means of motivating the slow learner, with English teaching oriented toward projects and practical matters. (Text is in German.)…
Descriptors: Comprehension, English (Second Language), Intellectual Development, Language Instruction