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Bowden, John; Marton, Ference – 1998
This book extends the ideas of the competency and quality movements in higher education to definitions of learning outcomes that deal with an unknown future, and to accountability as a consequence rather than a focus. It argues that ways of teaching (bringing learning about), assessment (finding out what has been learned), and university…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Educational Philosophy
Smith, Frank – 1995
Reflecting important issues in the lives of educators, the contents of the nine essays in this book range from hope for the almost unlimited potential of the human brain for learning and thinking, particularly through language and literacy, to despair at the individual and social damage caused by efforts to systematize teaching and learning in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Role, Learning Processes, Literacy
Gere, Anne Ruggles, Ed. – 1985
Written by teachers, the chapters in this book show how writing fosters learning in math, science, English, social studies, foreign language, philosophy, psychology, and art. Following an introduction by Anne Ruggles Gere, the first chapter, "Writing to Learn: The Nurse Log Classroom," by Steve Pearse, presents a comprehensive overview…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Writing, Education, Instruction
Lenning, Oscar T.; Ebbers, Larry H. – 1999
This report examines the importance of learning communities within institutions of higher education. It identifies two important dimensions of learning communities: (1) primary membership, which differentiates based on the characteristic that group members hold in common; these include learning organizations, faculty learning communities, and…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Environment
Nystrand, Martin; And Others – 1997
This book aims to reorient thinking about how younger adolescents and their teachers, talking together, compose shared understandings that contribute to individual students' learning. Presenting a new conceptual framework that was derived from a study, the book argues that people learn not merely by being spoken (or written) to, but by…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, English Instruction, Group Dynamics
Gang, Philip S.; And Others – 1992
The purpose of this book is to give educators new organizing principles that will lead out from the present day mechanistic-reductionist viewpoint toward a more holistic perspective, one that fosters love and peace. The Foreword, titled "Education and Evolution," deals with an anthropological perspective, the end of the Cenozoic period, and ways…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Theories
Gallas, Karen – 1994
Noting children's natural proclivity to interpret language freely and use that potential to expand and develop as learners, this book offers a new approach to understanding how young children communicate their knowledge of the world and how that understanding can transform the educative process. The book also describes the process of conducting…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cognitive Style, Epistemology, Learning Processes
Freudenthal, Hans – 1991
This book represents a compilation of the views and ideas of the late Hans Freudenthal, representing his last major contribution to the field of mathematics education. Rather than a presentation of new views, Freudenthal selected and streamlined old ideas, many gathered from his lectures in China, and formed a review of questions and issues in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Huba, Mary E.; Freed, Jann E. – 2000
This book is intended for practicing or aspiring faculty who are interested in a learner perspective. It can be used individually or collectively in orientations, graduate teaching seminars, and faculty development seminars. Recognizing that most college faculty learned to teach using the lecture method, and that while the lecture method is not…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Teaching, Educational Assessment, Educational Resources
Lesch, Lyn – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
Author Lyn Lesch advocates that learning cannot be measured by empirical results like testing and grading. As the founder of Chicago's The Children's School, Lesch didn't give grades or submit students to standardized testing. Such conditions may seem blasphemous to most educators, but the results spoke for themselves. Without the high-stakes…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests, Student Attitudes
Waller, T. Gary, Ed.; MacKinnon, G. E., Ed. – 1979
The first of a series providing reviews, syntheses (empirical and rhetorical), and reports of reading research, the chapters in this volume treat the question, "What does a child have to know (or be able to do) in order to learn to read?" The book begins with an in-depth logical analysis in historical perspective of the concept of reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Learning Processes
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1979
This book deals with cognitive development from the perspective of the author's theory of conceptual learning and development (CLD) and from a Piagetian perspective. Chapter I provides an overview of CLD theory and also identifies and discusses the Piagetian constructs of stage, groupement structures, and equilibration. Chapter II focuses on the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Abbott, John; Ryan, Terry – 2001
In this book, it is argued that the so-called crisis in education is really a crisis in childhood and that the unit of change is not the school but rather the larger community. Schools inherited from the industrial age are structured to develop a mass of students who, at best, are equipped with basic skills and the ability to follow orders. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
Finnan, Christine, Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book provides insights into one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive school-restructuring movements, the Accelerated Schools Project. Since its inception in 1986, the focus of the movement has been on transforming schools with students at risk of dropping out into schools with high expectations of all students. This is accomplished,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – 1997
This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development: the idea that very young children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of their knowledge. These restructurings are analogous to theory changes. The children's early semantic development is closely tied…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Children, Classification
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