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Peer reviewedShannon, Patrick – Language Arts, 1984
Disusses three assertions regarding mastery learning in reading programs: (1) mastery learning is adopted to "legitimize" reading programs to the public; (2) schools cannot provide unlimited time for learning to read; and (3) thus, teachers are reduced to managers of materials and, with students, surrender control of their literacy. (HTH)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Mastery Learning
Download full textClary, Joan; Mahaffy, John – 1985
The theoretical foundations of thinking skills models differ. One category of thinking skills programs uses the cognitive process approach on the premise that thinking abilities depend upon certain fundamental processes. Thinking skills programs that present a strategic approach to thinking are called heuristics-oriented programs, and focus on an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy
Mackenzie, Neil; Amiet, Carol – Australian Journal of Reading, 1985
Points out that in order for parents to support new educational approaches in teaching reading and writing, they must understand these methods. Describes successful ways to inform and involve parents in their children's literacy learning. (EL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Parent Education, Parent Participation
Yellin, David – 1982
Recent discoveries about the whole brain seem to call for a holistic approach to learning, one in which educators would teach the whole person, including physical and emotional states as well as cognitive abilities. Three holistic techniques are particularly relevant to education: (1) biofeedback; (2) yoga; and (3) the Lozanov method. Biofeedback…
Descriptors: Biofeedback, Cerebral Dominance, Educational Experiments, Feedback
Jones, Beau Fly – 1982
Reading improvement programs that have focused on additional staff for teaching, tutoring, and counseling; prescriptive, self-paced learning methods; unstructured open-education strategies; and intensive reading have often been successful in small towns and middle sized cities, but none has made a major impact on the reading achievement of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Curriculum Development, Inner City, Learning Processes
Smith, Frank – 1983
Viewing literacy as the ability to make use of all available possibilities of written language, the essays in this collection deal with a broad range of literacy related topics and issues. Titles of the 13 essays, written over a 10-year period, are as follows: (1) "The Politics of Ignorance"; (2) "Twelve Easy Ways to Make Learning to Read…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Language Acquisition
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1981
Intended to provide a publication outlet for systematic and substantive reviews and syntheses, both empirical and theoretical, and for integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on what children learn when learning to read, and how this learning can be facilitated. The first chapter of the volume offers an analysis of writing…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Early Reading
