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Daniel John Anderson – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Across Canada, provincial education mandates cite intellectual development, socialization, and vocational preparation as some of the central goals of public schooling (B.C., 1989; Ontario, 1990). Within Alberta's Guide to Education (2024) yet another objective is offered, which is that schooling ought to promote the leading of "meaningful,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Principles, Intellectual Development, Socialization
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Ronan, Darcy M.; Polizzi, Joseph A. – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
An examination of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) informs the substance and manner of educator preparation, grounding a College of Education in the mission of the University. A CIT-formed educator is capable of critically interacting with both harmonious and dissonant contemporary movements in K-12 education to produce judgments of…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Colleges, Intellectual Development, Teacher Education Programs
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Scanlan, Andrew E. – Princeton University Press, 2019
The Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational History, High School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Briceño, Allison; Bergey, Rebecca – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2022
This essay explores a variety of ways California's English Learner (EL) Roadmap can be used as a tool to make significant and transformative changes to provide meaningful learning opportunities for students classified as English Learners. The EL Roadmap contains 4 principles: (1) Asset-oriented and needs-responsive schools; (2) Intellectual…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Equal Education, Classification, Educational Opportunities
Beatty, Alexandra – National Academies Press, 2011
What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual development, opportunities for future study and work, and choices of career, as well as their capacity to make informed decisions about political and civic issues and about their own lives. Most people…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Expertise, Elementary Secondary Education, Workshops
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Bloh, Christopher; Axelrod, Saul – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
With the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, classrooms are now mandated to employ behavioral methods to address target behaviors. These relevant behavioral strategies have long been advanced and disseminated by the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Notwithstanding this capability, proponents of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, State Departments of Education, Intellectual Development, Behavior Modification
Adams, Dennis M.; Fuchs, Mary – Technological Horizons in Education, 1986
Recent alliances between communication providers and computer manufacturers will lead to new technological combinations that will deliver visually-based ideas and information to a worldwide audience. Urges that those in charge of future video programs to consider their effects on children's language skills, thinking patterns, and intellectual…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
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Brooks, Martin; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1983
The Cognitive Levels Matching Project trains teachers to guide students' skill acquisition and problem-solving processes by assessing students' cognitive levels and adapting their teaching materials accordingly. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Intellectual Development
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Cohen, LeoNora M. – Roeper Review, 1988
A comprehensive theory is needed to explain the gifted/creative child's developing intelligence. Literature-based criteria are suggested for evaluating theories and for distinguishing theories from program applications, within four broad categories: nature of the gifted child, education and identification, framework of the theory, and criteria for…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Child Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lipman, Matthew – Educational Leadership, 1984
Argues that the best way to cultivate children's reasoning is to make philosophy an essential part of the elementary school curriculum. Philosophy alone provides the logical criteria for distinguishing better thinking from poorer. The author's "Philosophy for Children" program is described. (TE)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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Vye, Nancy J.; Bransford, John D. – Educational Leadership, 1981
Explores the similarities and differences among three thinking skills programs that help students analyze and evaluate their own problem-solving skills. (MLF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Intellectual Development
Scardamalia, Marlene – 1984
The main focus of contemporary research in writing is on developing ideas and on the processes of planning and revision that make this possible. In the first half of this paper, the distinctive strategies used by experts and novices are elaborated. For example, novice writers depend upon having knowledge already assembled in forms ready for…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Learning Strategies
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Walsh, John – Science, 1981
Describes a Venezualan effort to develop intelligence, lead by Luis Alberto Machado, Minister of State for the Development of Intelligence. Explains intelligence-enhancing programs emphasizing good prenatal care and infant nutrition and fostering intellectual development in elementary and secondary school classes. (DS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Yodintra, Smai – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1980
Discussed are the problems of teaching and learning fractions in the upper primary and lower secondary schools. Recommendations for teaching fractions are made and defects in various methods of fraction instruction are identified. It is suggested that fractions not be taught in upper primary and lower secondary schools. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Fractions, Intellectual Development
Jacobson, Robert L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Robert J. Sternberg's research on cognitive style and model of "mental self-government" at all educational levels have led to a pilot elementary/secondary curriculum to help students develop common sense and practical judgment as well as intellect. The interinstitutional effort between Yale and Harvard universities includes Howard…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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