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Pelaez, Nancy; And Others – 1997
How do good science students perceive the process of learning science? What occurs in the learning process that motivates students to accept the challenge of pursuing a career in science? This paper reports on panel discussions held by teams of medical students, research science doctoral students, science education students, and high school…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Tort-Moloney, Daniele – 1997
A discussion of the work of Lev Vygotsky in the field of cognitive development focuses on how the Vygotskian concepts of internalization and mediated knowledge are crucial to the development of both learner and teacher autonomy in second language instruction. Focus is on theory, with empirical studies used as illustration. First, the Vygotskian…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers
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Taranto, Maria A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Compares and synthesizes past decade of research into facets of wisdom, searching for a unified definition. Concludes that factors relating to wisdom (age, experience, intelligence, knowledge, intuition, common sense, and personality) can be unified theoretically if wisdom is viewed as the recognition of and response to human limitation.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Development, Definitions
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Erikson, Joan Mowat – Journal of Education, 1985
Educating for personal knowing requires an approach to learning that is based in direct sensory experience. Creative art activity nurtures the development of vital sensory experience at every stage of the life cycle. Through imagination, sensory experience is transformed into self-knowledge and conceptual thought; together they illuminate the…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Educational Theories
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Brodie, Karin – Educational Review, 1989
The author addresses mathematics instruction in students' second language. Theories on the interaction of language and cognitive development, and language and mathematical thinking, as well as studies conducted with bilingual students, are presented along with their implications for teaching, texts, and curriculum development. These ideas are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Learning Theories
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Daniels, Thomas G. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1994
Describes Developmental Counseling and Therapy (DCT) as model of helping based on Piagetian and constructivist concepts. Notes that client functioning is understood in terms of four levels of cognitive developmental functioning which parallel levels of cognitive development described by Piaget. Describes starting with client's predominant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories
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Laubenbacher, Reinhard C.; Pengelley, David J. – American Mathematical Monthly, 1992
Describes the history of five selected problems from mathematics that are included in an undergraduate honors course designed to utilize original sources for demonstrating the evolution of ideas developed in solving these problems: area and the definite integral, the beginnings of set theory, solutions of algebraic equations, Fermat's last…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, College Mathematics, Concept Formation
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Garnett, Norma A. – Hispania, 1998
Bloom's taxonomy suggests that the learning process moves hierarchically, from simple to complex, in both the cognitive and affective domains. Spanish curriculum typically emphasizes the cognitive over the affective domain. However, the two domains appear to be interrelated. Spanish FLES programs could be enhanced by emphasizing the learning…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
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Taylor, Ronald L.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
The McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) was administered to kindergarten-aged chilren to obtain General Cognitive Indices (CGI). A short form of the MSCA was developed to select six subtests that best predicted the CGI. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Karmos, Joseph S.; And Others – Illinois Schools Journal, 1990
Offers ideas for asking good questions in the classroom. Recommends that key questions be written down prior to class. Questions should clearly cue students to respond specifically and briefly. Presents examples of types of questions that have been found either to encourage or to inhibit thinking. (JS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes
Pinker, Steven – Natural History, 1997
Considers the role of evolution and natural selection in the functioning of the modern human brain. Natural selection equipped humans with a mental toolbox of intuitive theories about the world which were used to master rocks, tools, plants, animals, and one another. The same toolbox is used today to master the intellectual challenges of modern…
Descriptors: Biology, Brain, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Black, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1997
Describes research on brain development and its relationship to music education. Discusses how music helps some people organize the way they think and work and how music helps them develop in other areas, including mathematics, language, and spatial reasoning. (10 references) (LMI)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
Marturano, Arlene – 1977
Reporting on the development, design, and implementation of an approach for teaching reading to rural black children in the intermediate grades, this paper is organized in three sections that reflect the framework of the project. The first section discusses the delineation of the theoretical framework for teaching reading, resulting in a rationale…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design
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Posner, George J.; And Others – Science Education, 1982
A general model of conceptual change which is largely derived from current philosophy of science, but which can illuminate learning as well, is described. Some features of this model are illustrated by interviews with students studying special relativity in physics. Finally, some pedagogical implications are presented. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; McGinn, Michelle K. – Research in Science Education, 1997
Information processing models do not account for much of human competence in everyday scientific and lay contexts. Situated cognition models account better for competence in widely differing situations. In situated cognition models, the purpose of science education must be reconceived as preparing citizens to participate in public enactments of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Cognitive Development, Cultural Context, Educational Objectives
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