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Understanding the Stereotype as a Complex Communication Tool: Touchstone Award
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Kurylo, Anastacia – Communication Teacher, 2004
A cognitive approach that views stereotypes as mental tools that function in information processing has dominated recent work on stereotyping. But regardless of their cognitive utility, an association between stereotypes and social injustice (i.e., prejudice, discrimination) has earned stereotypes the label "bad" and consequently something to be…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Social Discrimination, Class Activities, Intergroup Education
Teaching Critical Thinking for Transfer across Domains: Dispositions, Skills, Structure Training, and Metacognitive Monitoring.
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Halpern, Diane F. – American Psychologist, 1998
Presents four-part empirical model for teaching and learning critical thinking. Model consists of dispositional or attitudinal component, instruction in and practice with critical-thinking skills, structure-training activities designed to facilitate transfer across contexts, and metacognitive component used to direct and assess thinking. Contains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, College Students, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Learning by Doing--Piagets konstruktivistische Lerntheorie und ihre Konsequenzen fur die padagogische Praxis (Learning by Doing--Piaget's Constructivist Learning Theory and Its Consequences for Pedagogical Practice).
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Vollmers, Burkhard – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1997
Presents Jean Piaget's theory of genetic recognition, one of the first constructivist learning theories. Examines critically the relationship of the theory to present-day teaching and learning research, pedagogical practice, and other forms of constructivism. Asserts that one practical application of Piaget's learning theory would be to teach by…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Constructivism (Learning)
Undergraduate Information Literacy: A Teaching Framework
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McPherson, Karen – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2004
In this paper, a framework for the teaching of undergraduate information literacy is proposed. This framework has been developed as a major outcome of the author's PhD research into information literacy issues in general, and an aspect of literacy--information retrieval--in particular. Literature from two disciplines was reviewed as background to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Retrieval, Cognitive Psychology, Learning Theories
Secondary School Teachers and Learning Style Preferences: Action or Watching in the Classroom?
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Veronica, M.; Lawrence, M. – Educational Psychology, 1997
Uses the "Learning Styles Questionnaire" (LSQ) with secondary school teachers to identify four preferred learning styles among: activist, reflector, theorist, and pragmatist. Discusses these preferences in light of teachers' values, positions, and subject specialization. Considers the role these preferences could play in secondary…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Style, Educational Psychology
Harvard Education Letter. Volume 22, Number 3, May-June 2006
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Chauncey, Caroline, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2006
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Making Schools Safer for LGBT Youth: Despite Signs of Progress, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students Say Harassment Persists (Michael Sadowski);…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Homosexuality, Cognitive Psychology, Newsletters