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Download full textBlackie, Margaret A. L. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Despite the rigorous debate around the purposes of higher education and the associated concept of graduate attributes, science education at the tertiary level has remained largely impervious to engaging with these ideas. This may be due to the emphasis on the knowledge base of the hard science as opposed to the emphasis on the knower in the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Postsecondary Education, Epistemology, Individual Development
Direct linkBenjamin, Roger – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
Times of threshold change, such as the transformation from the industrial era to the knowledge economy of today, produce pressures to redesign the institutions people live with to respond to, or better, shape this change. In America's knowledge economy, there is broad agreement that the only way to preserve the nation's economic edge will be…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Thinking Skills, Comparative Analysis
Dale, Evelyn J. – 1983
Given the uncertainty of the future and the rapidity with which computer technology is changing, a generalist position on the objectives of educational computing is desirable. This position insists that learning how to think and solve problems is the foundation of education and suggests that basic learning needs to be an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Objectives, Intellectual Development
Warren, Jonathan R. – 1979
The concept of general education, its specific goals, and its role in the college curriculum are discussed. The goals of general education appear to center around teaching students to think analytically and to synthesize ideas into a general understanding. It is suggested, however, that these objectives tend to get lost in the specifics of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Students, Conference Reports
Eljamal, Melissa; And Others – 1996
This study examined the specific words that college faculty in different disciplines use to convey goals for students using data from 1986-87 interviews with 62 faculty members teaching introductory colleges and a 1988-89 survey of 2105 faculty which established a listing of over 6000 goal statements. Goal statements were examined in order to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
Azima, Kiavash; Henry, Rebecca – 1980
The essentials of Piaget's theory and its application to teaching at the college level are described as part of the Learning and Evaluation Service workshop, Teaching Students to Reason, offered at Michigan State University. Objectives are to enable the teacher to: (1) diagnose and classify reasoning patterns of students; (2) evaluate current…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Objectives, College Faculty, College Instruction
