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Direct linkSarah W. Beck – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this theoretical essay is to discuss recent scholarship in sociocultural studies of literacy -- including two recent books by Peter Smagorinsky (2011) and Luis Moll (2013) and recent articles by Gutierrez and Engestrom -- and to synthesize ideas from this scholarship into a coherent lens for understanding innovations in…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Development, Developmental Psychology
Rosmawati – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2014
Dynamic systems theory (DST) is presented in this article as a suitable approach to research the acquisition of second language (L2) because of its close alignment with the process of second language learning. Through a process of identifying and comparing the characteristics of a dynamic system with the process of L2 learning, this article…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Educational Research
Download full textBaskas, Richard S. – Online Submission, 2011
A study was conducted to determine the degree of correlation that adult learning theories and adult developmental theories have with educational practice. Two adult learning theories, Malcolm Knowles' phase theories and Daniel Levinson's developmental theories, were researched to determine their relevance to three components of a nontraditional…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Educational Practices, Developmental Psychology
Almy, Millie – 1974
This paper presents a discussion of the Piagetian theory of knowledge development in relation to early childhood education. It is suggested that Piaget's research has often been used by education to determine the sequence in which concepts should be presented to children rather than to determine the nature of the classroom experience children…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education
Kamii, Constance – 1985
Developmentalists are convinced that within each young child a process of unfolding occurs to regulate learning in ways that make worksheets and the "force-feeding" of isolated skills inappropriate. Still, worksheets are enormously popular in early education, and math education assumes that number is learned through internalization. Why…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education
Hersh, Richard H.; And Others – 1979
Written for the classroom teacher, this book examines the relationship of Lawrence Kohlberg's psychological theories to educational practice and articulates a sequence of steps necessary to understand the role of the moral educator. Part I discusses educational psychologist Jean Piaget's six stages of moral development. It also examines Kohlberg's…
Descriptors: Books, Conceptual Schemes, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
