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Parker, Jan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2013
It is urgent that we re-examine models of knowledge and knowledge-making within the university, at this time of open learning and deregulated multi-million dollar and euro open science hubs and portals. For otherwise, we are bound into "crude" instrumentalism, "delivering" "knowledge packets" rather than seeing our…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Watts, Mike; Bentley, Di – British Educational Research Journal, 1987
Argues that verbal and non-verbal cues initiated by science teachers affect students' willingness to explore their own ideas. States that changes in such teacher behaviors are necessary before the conceptual changes sought in science education can occur. (AEM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Curriculum Development
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Smilkstein, Rita Phipps – Journal of Developmental Education, 1993
Reviews research on the physiology of learning, suggesting the development of a new educational model consistent with natural brain development. Considers connected learning a physiological imperative. Discusses ways of using the Natural Human Learning Process (NHLP) in the classroom and the development of an NHLP curriculum unit. (27 citations)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Curriculum Development, Developmental Continuity
Marbeau, L. – Western European Education, 1988
Discusses the French educational reforms between 1969 and 1985, examining their effects on the teaching of history and geography, which are mandatory throughout pre-university education. Writing for elementary school teachers, Marbeau considers the construction of knowledge in children aged 6 to 11, in history, geography, and the social sciences.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Curriculum Development
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Efland, Arthur D. – Studies in Art Education, 1995
Contrasts recent views of learning and cognition with cognitive learning theories of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Maintains that Jerome Bruner's spiral curriculum approach, still valuable, is not sufficient to explain cognitive development. Proposes a lattice-like cognitive development structure, inviting differing paths of exploration. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Satchwell, Richard E.; Johnson, Scott D. – 1992
A quasi-experimental study explored the effect of functional flow diagrams on technical system understanding. An individualized field training package which contained schematic diagrams that illustrated an aircraft's electrical system was complimented with functional flow diagrams. In a 4-week treatment, a control group of 10 students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Aviation Mechanics, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures
McKeough, Anne – 1992
Instructional implications of cognitive development theory are discussed, and it is proposed that the current theoretical framework offers a view of development that, applied in instructional contexts, leads to a reconceptualization of the traditional notion of developmental curricula. Piaget's theory offered a framework for how children should be…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures