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Andreev, A. L. – Russian Education and Society, 2009
Education rests on the foundation of culture in the broadest sense of that word. How deeply and solidly that foundation has been laid down determines the size and solidity of the building that can be constructed on it. This applies in particular to higher education, which is by no means designed solely to offer just a body of specialized…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, College Students, Empathy

Feuerstein, Reuven; Kozulin, Alex – Educational Leadership, 1995
Despite its failings, Herrnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve" is valuable for emphasizing cognition as significantly affecting human performance and social achievement; acknowledging human differences; and offering a frightening depiction of contemporary American society. The authors err in reducing intelligence to a stable, immutable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development
Spodek, Bernard – 1976
Using the book "Fostering Intellectual Development in Young Children" by Kenneth D. Wann and the book's impact on education as a point of departure, this paper presents a way of looking at the early childhood curriculum that goes beyond the book but is in keeping with its concerns for the education of young children. The book was a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences
Eisner, Elliot W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Our minds are shaped by youthful learning opportunities. Different forms of cultural representation (art, poetry, or mathematics) influence the processes and products of thinking, develop different cognitive skills, influence perceptions, can be combined to provide enriching experiences, and call on different skills and forms of thinking.…
Descriptors: American Dream, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development
Stefanich, Greg; Aldridge, Mary Nan – 1980
The intellectual model of Jean Piaget asserts that individuals pass through a series of various intellectual stages as they mature. Human development is categorized into four basic stages: (1) sensory motor stage, which lasts from birth to about eighteen months; (2) preoperational stage, lasting from eighteen months to about seven years; (3)…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences, Developmental Stages

Saxe, Geoffrey B. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Presents a developmental framework for the study of culture and cognition in which cultural practice is a key organizing construct. Argues that systematic analysis of either cultural change or cognitive development requires that they be understood relative to one another in a single integrative treatment. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Alexander, Theron – 1969
In a discussion of psychological development separate sections are devoted to (1) biological and cultural influences on development, (2) development in infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, (3) physiological foundations of behavior, (4) motivation and cognitive development, (5) intellectual development, (6) imagination and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Biological Influences

Singh, B. R. – Educational Studies, 1996
Reviews the current theories concerning individual differences in cognitive functioning. While some argue that heredity places a genetic cap on intellectual development, others emphasize the dynamic interrelationship between cultural and environmental factors. Concludes that intelligence is more complex than the heredity advocates allow. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences
Casavantes, Edward J. – 1970
An interdisciplinary research study is suggested following a review of the more significant studies that have been attempted to explain the degree of educational retardation of the Mexican American as related to such factors as life stresses (e.g., economic deprivation) and learning styles. This study would be a combination of survey research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citations (References), Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences