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Schwitzer, Alan M.; Ancis, Julie R.; Brown, Nina – 2001
This book outlines factors and practices that directly and indirectly influence the adjustment, learning, and development of distance education students. The book also provides a detailed overview of student affairs responses to distant student needs, stressing the importance of building communities at a distance, and using a case study to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distance Education, Educational Practices, Educational Television
Feng, Jianhua – 1989
This paper analyzes the rationale for the project approach to educational programming from the cognitive-developmental perspective. It is argued that in many ways, the project approach reflects the cognitive-developmental view; that it is a convergence of Piaget's constructivism and Dewey's progressivism. Like any approach, the project approach is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Guidelines
Bailey, Beeke – 1987
This paper provides curriculum makers with an overview of developmental theory and relates the theory to instructional strategies. The section on socioemotional development addresses Erikson's eight ages of man, Kohlberg's stages of moral development, motivation and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Taylor's stage model of creative development, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
Daloz, Laurent A. – 1999
This book offers perspectives for understanding adult learners and suggests in practical ways based on current development theory how higher education professionals can work more effectively to improve the quality of the educational experience for these students. Using the metaphor of a journey, the book explores the process of adult learning in…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, College Programs, Developmental Tasks
Swartz-Tetrault, Alma M. – 1989
The critical and creative thinking dispositions which are intrinsic to children's critical thought may reflect the standards of an adult culture which values verbalized thought over other kinds of human intelligence. Primary critical and creative thinking dispositions are those which help the child explore the world. These are biological processes…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Roberts, Patricia Morgan, Comp. – 1989
Intended for use with children between the developmental ages of 3 and 6 years, this guide for early childhood education was developed by a team of teachers and administrators in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. After a chapter providing background information about early childhood education, discussions focus on the…
Descriptors: Background, Classroom Environment, Community Resources, Early Childhood Education
Patterson, Donna; And Others – 1988
Alberta Education's position on the physical growth of students is presented in this paper, which focuses on children's physical growth in the areas of perceptual, structural, and motor development. Each area is first discussed in terms of three age groups: the child from infancy to preschool, the elementary child, and the adolescent. Concluding…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Practices, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
d'Agostino, Micheline; Masse-Raimbault, Anne-Marie – Children in the Tropics, 1987
Providing basic reference materials, this issue of "Children in the Tropics" consists of a revised and completed version of the 1982 issue on the development of children from birth to 6 years of age. Contents present a broad picture of the physical and mental development of children under 6 and formulate a number of recommendations about…
Descriptors: Day Care, Developing Nations, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices
Bear, George G., Ed.; Minke, Kathleen M., Ed.; Thomas, Alex, Ed. – 1997
The expanding needs of children today demand effective prevention and treatment programs. Some model programs that address these needs are described here. Schools are now being called upon to serve a population with a tremendous multiplicity of physical, social, emotional, and academic problems in an atmosphere of public dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
Taylor, Sue – 2001
This document presents guidelines for engaging employers in work-based learning programs offered by post-16 institutions in the United Kingdom. Chapter 1 explains why the guidelines are needed, how they were developed, and how they can be used. The following are among the topics examined in Chapters 2-6: (1) getting employers involved (benefits of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, Educational Cooperation
Moon, Jennifer A. – 1999
This book reviews the literature on reflection, explores the relationship between reflection and learning, and discusses how reflection can be used to improve learning and professional practice. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) common-sense and developmental stage approaches to reflection; (2) the philosophies of Dewey and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies