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Meyer, Derek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
The relativist position on knowledge is summarized by Protagoras' phrase "Man is the measure of all things". Protagoras' detractors countered that there was no reason for his pupils to employ him since, by his own admission, his lessons lacked privilege. This the educationist's relativist paradox. The Enlightenment tradition of…
Descriptors: Language Role, Learning Processes, Empathy, Educational Philosophy
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Amso, Dima; Kirkham, Natasha – Child Development Perspectives, 2021
Visual attention both guides and is guided by learning and memory systems. In this article, we use a multiple-memory systems framework to examine the interplay between attention and memory that begins in early postnatal life. We review how attention and memory interact to support infant development with respect to perceptual learning about objects…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Memory, Learning Processes, Correlation
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Williams, A. Mark; Fawver, Bradley; Hodges, Nicola J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2017
The expert performance approach, initially proposed by Ericsson and Smith (1991), is reviewed as a systematic framework for the study of "expert" learning. The need to develop representative tasks to capture learning is discussed, as is the need to employ process-tracing measures during acquisition to examine what actually changes during…
Descriptors: Expertise, Performance, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Hume, Kara; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Szendrey, Susan; McIntyre, Nancy S.; Yücesoy-Özkan, Serife; Savage, Melissa N. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2020
Autism is currently one of the most prominent and widely discussed human conditions. Its increased prevalence has intensified the demand for effective educational and therapeutic services, and intervention science is providing mounting evidence about practices that positively impact outcomes. The purpose of this report is to describe a set of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
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Spaulding, Lucinda S.; Mostert, Mark P.; Beam, Andrea P. – Exceptionality, 2010
Brain Gym[R] (BG; BGI, 2008) is a popular commercial program sold by Brain Gym[R] International (BGI). Making extravagant claims for improved intellectual and physical development, it is used in more than 80 countries. While BGI's claims are persuasive, to date there is little empirical evidence validating the approach. We examine some theoretical…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Brain, Physical Development, Child Development
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Tomiczek, Caroline; Burke, Darren – Learning and Motivation, 2008
Considerable research has been devoted to investigating learning without awareness. Burke and Roodenrys [Burke, D., & Roodenrys, S. (2000). Implicit learning in a simple cued reaction-time task. "Learning and Motivation" 31, 364-380] developed a simple learning task in which a cue shape predicts the arrival of a target shape (to which subjects…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Models, Learning Processes, Reaction Time