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The Dialectics of Gender: A Move beyond Dichotomies Constraining Growth.
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Ranieri, Paul W. – 1992
The conceptual starting point for almost all recent gender related theory and research is to identify the characteristics of current educational practice as rooted in a type of thought that is linear, analytical, stage dependent, discursive, and "objective," and that separates thought and language--this is the mode that is typically associated…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking, Educational Practices
Ways of Learning: Indigenous Approaches to Knowledge: Valid Methodologies in Education.
Semchison, Michael Red Shirt – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2001
A 56-year-old Canada Native took a college course on Australian Indigenous approaches to knowledge. He observed that initially many students were hindered by their past experience with linear paradigms of structured academic processes. Eventually they let their minds access spirit and feeling in addition to thought, allowing a recall of life…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Canada Natives, Cognitive Style, College Students
Rural Access. AACC Project Brief.
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Eller, Ronald; Martinez, Ruben; Pace, Cynthia; Pavel, Michael; Garza, Hector; Barnett, Lynn – 1998
The Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) provides funds and technical assistance to targeted community colleges in an effort to improve educational access and foster economic development in distressed rural areas of the United States. This project brief describes RCCI's attempts to increase access by implementing an approach more holistic…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Economic Development