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Collins, Loel; Collins, Dave – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2012
As a comparatively recent development, the adventure-sports coach struggles for a clear and distinct identity. The generic term "instructor" no longer characterizes the role and function of this subgroup of outdoor professionals. Indeed, although the fields of adventure/outdoor education and leadership are comparatively well researched,…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Comparative Analysis, Adventure Education, Leadership
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McLeod, Julie – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2009
The field of youth studies appears to have increasingly taken on a self-consciously "international" orientation, characterized by grappling with how to represent local youth identities and social practices within international, transnational, or global contexts. This challenge is repeated across many different types of study and worked…
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Educational Research, Global Approach, Young Adults
Smillie, David – 1985
One of the truly remarkable events in human evolution is the unprecedented increase in the size of the brain of "Homo" over a brief span of 2 million years. It would appear that some significant selective pressure or opportunity presented itself to this branch of the hominid line and caused a rapid increase in the brain, introducing a…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation, Evolution
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Maestripieri, Dario – Social Development, 2005
Comparative behavioral research is important for a number of reasons and can contribute to the understanding of human behavior and development in many different ways. Research with animal models of human behavior and development can be a source not only of general principles and testable hypotheses but also of empirical information that may be…
Descriptors: Individual Psychology, Behavioral Science Research, Animals, Individual Development
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Henke, James T. – Children's Literature in Education, 1983
Examines how the two very different novels--"Millie's Boy" and "Father Figure"--treat the commonplace theme of the quest for mature identity in a similar but very uncommon fashion. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis, Individual Development
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Wilcox, Stephen; Katz, Stuart – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Two approaches to development are identified--ecological and cognitive. A comparison of the two approaches is made, and decisions are made favoring the ecological approach. A detailed description of the advantages of the ecological approach is provided by means of a systems theory model. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Ecology, Epistemology
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Duncan, Robert M. – Developmental Review, 1995
Responds to calls for combining the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky, discussing differences between the two perspectives. Notes that differences are found in underlying assumptions about the nature and process of development, philosophy, stages of development, developmental influences, and the integrity of cognitive structures. Suggests that, given…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Glassman, Michael – Developmental Review, 1995
Addresses the extent to which differences in Piagetian and Vygotskyan psychologies make their theories incompatible. Differences result from a Vygotskyan belief in a material primary cause for development; Piagetians do not hold this view. Explores this difference in perspective, concluding that, despite it, the two approaches are compatible. (JW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Furman, Wyndol – New Directions for Child Development, 1993
Delineates a series of nine questions concerning the study of adolescent friendships that must be addressed by theorists and empirical investigators. The questions concern comparisons between different types of relationships; peer relationships; individual differences; developmental differences; changes in friendship over time; friendship…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences
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Glassman, Michael – Human Development, 1996
Contrasts work of Leontiev and Vygotsky. Suggests that Leontiev concentrated on social activity as a whole, whereas Vygotsky made semiotic mediation through culturally developed symbols a central aspect of his analysis. Maintains that they shared a philosophical base and that Leontiev used Vygotsky's ideas as a starting point to explore human…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Psychology
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Weiland, Steven – Review of Higher Education, 1994
This paper argues that faculty career studies have neglected important work in life-span human development and narratives of the academic life. It suggests that such studies should use recent contributions from the behavioral sciences, pay attention to scholarly and scientific biography/autobiography, be discipline specific, and use varied methods…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Careers, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
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Falikowski, Anthony – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1982
By omitting the private and positive dimensions of morality and focusing on a single dimension of moral experience, interpersonal value conflict, Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Program presents a one-sided interpretation of ethics--one which in educational practice is likely to produce morally imbalanced students. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Reese, H. W. – Human Development, 1980
Criticizes the operant approach to the study of life span development from a theoretical behaviorism view. It is argued that the operant approach is too limited in its scope to enhance significantly the conceptualization and understanding of life span development. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Imitation
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Rothbaum, Fred; Pott, Martha; Azuma, Hiroshi; Miyake, Kazuo; Weisz, John – Child Development, 2000
Notes that commentators unanimously support Rothbaum et al.'s general orientation to culture and development and their developmental pathways. Views commentators' suggestions as relating to trade-offs: between theories that highlight generalization or exceptions; between methods that rely on one-, two-, or multiculture studies; and between values…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
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Goswami, Usha – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2002
Describes phonological sensitivity at different grain sizes as a good predictor of reading acquisition in all languages. Presents information on development of phonological sensitivity for syllables, onsets, and rimes. Illustrates that phoneme-level skills develop fastest in children acquiring orthographically consistent languages with simple…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Reading, Children, Comparative Analysis
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