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Erdugan, Fuat – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of this review is to consider the ideas, attitudes and opinions of students during course to contribute some different points of view to improve content of physical education (PE) lesson. So, while considering students ideas we also have to take into account some dimensions like being "intellectual", "social" and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physical Education, Student Centered Learning, Course Evaluation
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Tayler, Collette – European Journal of Education, 2015
Learning in the earliest stage of life--the infancy, toddlerhood and preschool period--is relational and rapid. Child-initiated and adult-mediated conversations, playful interactions and learning through active involvement are integral to young children making sense of their environments and to their development over time. The child's experience…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Intellectual Development, Social Development
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Besançon, Maud – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
In this article, conceptions of creativity in giftedness and their implications for education are reviewed. First, the definition of giftedness is examined taking into consideration the difference between intellectual giftedness and creative giftedness and the difference between potential and talent. Second, the nature of creativity based on the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Gifted, Definitions, Intellectual Development
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Costello, Patrick J. M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
The central aim of this paper is to undertake a critical review of arguments which propose that chess should be taught in schools and other educational settings. In particular, I offer an answer to the question: "Should chess be taught in early childhood?" Many claims have been made about the educational benefits of chess instruction. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Action Research, Intellectual Development
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Pyle, Nicole; Flower, Andrea; Fall, Anna Mari; Williams, Jacob – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
This systematic review sought to understand the individual characteristics of incarcerated youth within the major risk factor domains identified by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). A comprehensive search of the literature from 1979 to 2013 identified 85 articles of individual-level risk characteristics that…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Youth, At Risk Persons
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Sadler, Troy D.; McKinney, Lyle – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Engaging students in authentic scientific research has become an important component of undergraduate science education at many institutions. The purpose of this paper is to explore authentic research experiences as contexts for learning. The authors review empirical studies of undergraduate research experiences in order to critically evaluate the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research, Science Education, Epistemology
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Neumann, Anna – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
What do we learn about interdisciplinary collaboration and faculty learning from the three cases presented in Chapters Three to Five? What ideas will higher education researchers, faculty development practitioners, academic leaders, and professors want to consider?
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Learning Theories, Intellectual Experience
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Lawson, Antone E. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper presents a synthesis of what is currently known about the nature and development of scientific reasoning and why it plays a central role in acquiring scientific literacy. Science is viewed as a hypothetico-deductive (HD) enterprise engaging in the generation and test of alternative explanations. Explanation generation and test requires…
Descriptors: Evidence, Testing, Hypothesis Testing, Short Term Memory
Diaz, Rafael M. – 1985
While early research suggests that bilingualism creates a language handicap in individuals, more recent and methodologically better research clearly supports the advantages of bilingualism in promoting overall cognitive development. Three major explanations for this improved development are proposed: that (1) the bilingual-bicultural child…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Development
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Prawat, Richard S. – Educational Researcher, 1991
Examines three approaches to fostering higher level thinking in students: (1) the stand-alone approach; (2) the embedding approach; and (3) the immersion approach. The first two approaches teach thinking skills separately from or in the context of subject matter content; the immersion approach assigns an active role to perception and downplays…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Review of Educational Research, 1995
Developmental assumptions that are frequently regarded as constraints on elementary school science curricula are analyzed. The argument that elementary school children cannot function as experimentalists because they have not yet attained formal operational thought is not supported by the Piagetian or non-Piagetian research reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students