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Robert B. Williams – Online Submission, 2024
Handwriting was a therapeutic intervention with an adolescent victim of a serious electrical accident that occurred in 1972. It was initiated two months after the accident as one aspect of educational therapy. The handwriting tasks involved copying numbers, printing letters, copying shapes, practicing cursive letters, writing sentences, and…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Intervention, Accidents, Injuries
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Ahsan, Sanah; Williams, Emma – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
Sanah Ahsan is an award-winning poet and a qualified clinical psychologist. Ahsan has a growing profile in the public conversation about mental health. She is currently building anti-racism as a core competence into clinical psychology training. Her work has been featured by the BBC, Channel 4, Shakespeare's Globe and Southbank's WoW festival. She…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Racial Bias, Training
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Gilhooly, Ken J.; Sleeman, Derek H. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Inconsistency in real-world judgments can cause random unfairness, injustice and misallocation of resources. In their recent monograph Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein (2021) analyse judgment inconsistency or "Noise," examine its sources and propose remedies. In this commentary on Kahneman et al., we reflect on the major concepts (such as…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Bias, Error Patterns, Thinking Skills
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Barbot, Baptiste; Hein, Sascha; Trentacosta, Christopher; Beckmann, Jens F.; Bick, Johanna; Crocetti, Elisabetta; Liu, Yangyang; Rao, Sylvia Fernandez; Liew, Jeffrey; Overbeek, Geertjan; Ponguta, Liliana A.; Scheithauer, Herbert; Super, Charles; Arnett, Jeffrey; Bukowski, William; Cook, Thomas D.; Côté, James; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Eid, Michael; Hiraki, Kazuo; Johnson, Mark; Juang, Linda; Landi, Nicole; Leckman, James; McCardle, Peggy; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Piquero, Alex R.; Preiss, David D.; Siegler, Robert; Soenens, Bart; Yousafzai, Aisha Khizar; Bornstein, Marc H.; Cooper, Catherine R.; Goossens, Luc; Harkness, Sara; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Although developmental science has always been evolving, these times of fast-paced and profound social and scientific changes easily lead to disorienting fragmentation rather than coherent scientific advances. What directions should developmental science pursue to meaningfully address real-world problems that impact human development throughout…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Maria Stewart – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
In this article, the author offers suggestions to assist in taming "The Imposter Monster." What is that? Understanding that while academic writing can often be a daunting prospect for an early career researcher there are strategies that help. Author Marie Stewart writes one of the key strategies that her helped navigate this challenging…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Academic Language, Security (Psychology)
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Snow, Nancy E. – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
My remarks will outline, from a philosopher's perspective, challenges and opportunities that I see for a science of virtue. I will touch on three topics: (1) ensuring that the studies are philosophically useful; (2) grappling with issues of measurement; and (3) next steps in moving a science of virtue forward. I approach (1) and (2) through…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Measurement, Psychology, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Waight, Noemi; Kayumova, Shakhnoza; Tripp, Jennifer; Achilova, Feyza – Science & Education, 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in the rapid emergence of vaccines, the dual benefits of both science and technology have been lauded, while dominant, deficit-based narratives of vaccine hesitancy and mistrust in science and medicine by the general public, particularly minoritized populations, run rampant. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Justice, Science Education, Futures (of Society)
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Bierdz, Brad – Power and Education, 2021
This exploration takes a look at how students in higher education are disempowered through regimes of social power that are always already extant and ubiquitous within educational regimes. Moreover, this exploration pays particular interest and attention to students in higher education because in many cases throughout relevant research, these…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Empowerment, Power Structure, Philosophy
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Singh, Jaspal Naveel – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Understanding how people resist European colonial modernity by collaboratively constructing southern epistemological positionalities is crucial for plotting plans about what applied linguists can do to promote social justice in the third decade of the 21st century. Epistemological positionalities describe how speakers metapragmatically theorize…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics, Epistemology, Resistance (Psychology)
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Nolen, Susan Bobbitt – Educational Psychologist, 2020
In this commentary, I identify some common themes in the six articles in this special issue, including the importance of aligning research methods with research questions and embracing the complexity of educational phenomena. Then, I reflect on some differences in how authors responded to the request to discuss the role of their inquiry world view…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Educational Research, Research Methodology, World Views
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Gorard, Stephen – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
In this response to John Raven's "Diving in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Pre-Requisites to Evidence-Based Interventions," Stephen Gorard questions whether Raven's claims that researchers have created a serious threat to the entire earth, perhaps all of science, the process of education, and the field of psychology due to a lack of logic…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Educational Research, Educational Psychology, Evidence Based Practice
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Mendaglio, Sal; Kettler, Todd; Rinn, Anne N. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2019
Dabrowski's theory of positive disintegration has been associated with the psychology of giftedness for four decades, and Sal Mendaglio has significantly contributed to the thoughtful understanding of the theory throughout those 40 years. In this interview, Mendaglio discusses the relationship between the theory of positive disintegration and the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Interviews, Psychology, Correlation
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MacKay, Tommy – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
In this commentary on John Raven's "Diving in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Pre-Requisites to Evidence-Based Interventions," Tommy MacKay discusses three examples that illustrate Raven's tendency to overstate or at least to over-simplify the issues raised in his paper and to present various views, approaches, or interventions as being…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Intervention, Educational Research, Research Problems
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Lara-Steidel, Henry – Theory and Research in Education, 2022
Writing in 2011, Philip Kitcher worried in 'Public knowledge and its enemies' that flaws in the dissemination of public knowledge would lead from a state of widespread ignorance to active resistance against expertise and more. Today, we seem to be living in the world Kitcher predicted, where a wide range of facts ranging from the results of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Misconceptions, Information Dissemination, Media Literacy
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Shim, Soo-Yean; Krist, Christina – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
This commentary to Ha and Kim's article suggests three ways to expand the interpretive functions of framing to explore and support marginalized students' participation in collaboration and learning, based on our comprehensive review of Ha and Kim's and other relevant studies. We argue that framing can be a useful tool for (1) understanding both…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Power Structure, Students, Student Participation
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