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Kathleen Taylor – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
The expanding field of affective neuroscience is redefining the role of emotions in cognition, reasoning, and judgment. This contradicts long-standing assumptions about cognition that consider emotions antithetical to learning. Emotions arose early in human brain development as essential to survival by directing the embodied brain toward…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Educational Environment, Adult Education
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Lakomski, Gabriele – Australian Journal of Education, 2007
The purpose of this article is twofold. The first objective is to update the traditional craft of education by revising the folk theory of mind that underpins such traditions. This is necessary if we are to develop a new learning science as the cornerstone for the renewal of the education enterprise. The second objective is to highlight the need…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Theory of Mind, Science Instruction, Educational Change
Pearson, Charls; Slamecka, Vladimir – 1976
This study is designed to help provide an understanding of the role semiosis plays in information processes. The object of study is the structure of various types of signs, and a determination of the relationship between sign structure and information properties. A review of the theory of sign structure is followed by an examination of syntactic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education