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Piske, Fernanda Hellen Ribeiro; Stoltz, Tania; Guérios, Ettiène; de Camargo, Denise; Vestena, Carla Luciane Blum; de Freitas, Samarah Perszel; de Oliveira Machado Barby, Ana Aparecida; Santinello, Jamille – Online Submission, 2017
The creativity is expressed in all individuals, but it manifests itself in different proportions and it may be carried out at different levels. Development levels of this attribute depend on the teacher's mediation in the process of learning. Creativity can be a challenge for most teachers, since they are unaware of its importance and unwittingly…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Training, Gifted, Creativity
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Franken, Margaret; Branson, Christopher; Penney, Dawn – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Higher education institutions are increasingly recognizing the importance of organizational change as they face complex challenges. Leadership learning has been identified as an important way of supporting change management. We describe a leadership learning arrangement that arose in the context of two of the authors needing to learn how to become…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Leadership Training, Organizational Change, Department Heads
Hutchins, Edwin – 1987
This paper discusses the relationship between the mediation of task performance by some structure that is not inherent in the task domain itself and the phenomenon of automatization, in which skilled performance becomes effortless or phenomenologically "automatic" after extensive practice. The use of a common simple explicit mediating…
Descriptors: Adults, Artificial Intelligence, Check Lists, Cognitive Processes
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Roman, Christine A.; Zimmerman, George J. – RE:view, 1994
This article discusses the metacognitive approach of mediated learning theory and its application to orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction for individuals with visual impairments. The theory is explained, and the structure of a typical O&M lesson is outlined, followed by an example of using the approach in a trip to the drug store. (DB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Daily Living Skills, Instructional Development, Learning Processes
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The inservice and preservice learning module described here focuses on processing procedures used by students, the objective being to help teachers to stimulate cognitive processes. Perceptual and mediational processing and associative learning are specifically covered in the module, and methods for stimulating cognitive processes are presented.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hartman, Maria – Volta Review, 1996
Transcripts of the classroom conversations of seven profoundly deaf 13- and 14-year-old students and their teachers were analyzed, using Vygotsky's theories on the social nature of learning and the role of mediation. Results of the study found that conversation builds ideas, facilitates comprehension of text, encourages cognitive development, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development