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Rutter, Michael; O'Connor, Thomas G. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Associations between experiences and outcomes could be due to (a) continuation of adversity or (b) organismic changes, including experience-expectant and experience-adaptive developmental programming. The adoption into British families of children who had been reared in profoundly depriving institutions in Romania presented an opportunity to test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Psychological Characteristics, Child Development

Sternberg, Robert J.; Horvath, Joseph A. – Educational Researcher, 1995
Argues for a reconceptualization of teaching expertise based on psychological similarities of expert teachers to one another. The authors offer a prototype-based categorization model, drawn from psychological research, on which the family resemblance among expert teachers may be founded. The authors discuss several implications of the prototype…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Knowledge Level

Hakken, David – Journal of Education, 1983
Describes worker education programs in Sheffield, England and Utica, New York; focuses on approaches for evaluating the impact of the pedagogy of liberation on such programs; discusses social psychological dilemmas of workers' education students; and suggests that the content of liberation pedagogy be restructured. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Activism, Capitalism, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries