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Durr, Catrina R.; Lahart, Therese E.; Maas, Renee M. – 1999
This report describes a program for developing and improving critical thinking skills in adolescents in order to prepare them for life-long learning. The targeted population consisted of high school math and social studies students from two middle-class communities located in northern Illinois. The students' lack of critical thinking skills was…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Formal Operations, High Schools, Language
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DeVries, Rheta – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
This paper has two purposes: (1) to explain briefly in terms of Piaget's theory why relationships are fundamental for constructivist teachers; and (2) to show how constructivist teachers can think about relationships in classroom activities. In a nutshell, the message is that the process by which children are constructing their intelligence,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Class Activities, Piagetian Theory, Formal Operations