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Linking Character Strengths and Learning with Films: A Content Analysis of Films for Adolescents
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Phaire, Dorothy W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Despite abundant research substantiating the value of teaching with films, there is a dearth of accessible resources that can help educators select films for positive modeling of character strengths. This scarcity exists in spite of the evidence that supports the efficacy of films' influence on young people. Young people today are receiving…
Descriptors: Ethics, Personality Traits, Films, Teaching Methods
Training Effects and Generalization of the Ability to Control Variables in High School Biology Students
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Lawson, Anton E.; And Others – Science Education, 1975
Three Piagetian tests of formal reasoning were administered to 65 high school biology students after half of this group had been exposed to a training session involving the control of variables. Among the results of this study was that the concrete operational students benefited more from the training session than did the formal operational…
Descriptors: Biology, Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Intellectual Development
Using Principles of Constructivism To Promote Reflective Judgment: A Model Lesson.
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Scheurman, Geoffrey – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1997
Examines key psychological principles in contemporary theories of learning (constructivism) and highlights conceptual connections between them and aspects of critical thinking and epistemological maturity described by the reflective judgment model of adult intellectual development. Also describes an undergraduate psychology lesson that bridges…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking
Realms of Reading: Rhetoric, Reasoning and Reflection.
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Jenkinson, Marion D.
Rhetoric, reasoning, and reflection are discussed as the tools which enable a reader to distend the experience of reading to its greatest limits. Rhetoric is interpreted as the facility which allows the reader to understand both the necessary "how" and "what" of an author's work. Eleven cognitive processes used in written material are defined and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Comprehension, Content Area Reading
Reflective Judgment Theory and Research: Insights into the Process of Knowing in the College Years.
King, Patricia M.; Kitchener, Karen Strohm – 1985
The reflective judgment (RJ) model is described, along with research findings based on the model and contributions to understanding student intellectual development in higher education. The RJ model (Kitchener & King, 1981) describes a series of changes that occur in the ways adults/young adults understand the process of knowing, and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adult Development, Cognitive Ability, College Students
Multicultural Reasoning and the Appreciation of Art.
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Stout, Candace Jesse – Studies in Art Education, 1997
Explicates a multicultural approach to art education that enhances critical thinking. Grounds this approach in the philosophical principles of constructivism that emphasize the student's construction of meaning rather than the passive transmission of knowledge from a teacher. Discusses the possibility of multicultural reasoning and its…
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education, Constructivism (Learning)