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Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Defines inquiry, a student-centered discovery process, and introduces Pathways to Knowledge(TM), an information process model that provides stages and strategies for anyone interested in gathering, using, and evaluating information. Describes the six stages of Pathways: Appreciation, Presearch; Search; Interpretation; Communication; and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Charney, Len – Zip Lines: The Voice for Adventure Education, 1997
Children's visual literacy can be enhanced by focusing their attention on aspects of the natural or built environment in the local community. Two activities use photographs and field trips to provide the building blocks of visual literacy: challenging activities, inquiry and problem solving, curiosity and the unexpected, and culture-based…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education
Gartenhaus, Alan – 1984
Museum objects can be the springboard for exercising critical thinking. There are four main thought processes associated with critical thinking: (1) fluent thinking, the ability to produce many ideas; (2) flexible thinking, the ability to view something in different ways; (3) original thinking, the ability to produce unique ideas; and (4)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Download full textGross, Richard E., Ed.; Muessig, Raymond H., Ed. – 1971
The plea of this bulletin, the second and full revision of The Problems Approach and the Social Studies copyrighted in 1955 and 1960, is for teachers to do more with the reflective method in their classrooms. It draws upon the latest and most pertinent insights distilled from research, theory, and practice associated with reflective thinking;…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Concept Teaching
