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Culver, Richard S. – Engineering Education, 1987
Describes a self-managed learning approach designed to help engineering students take charge of their own learning. Discusses marker events, exploratory learning versus linear instruction, knowledge through self-discovery, information retrieval, production through writing and speaking, and promoting a mature response. (TW)
Descriptors: College Science, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Engineering Education
Weiner, Linda – 1984
A college English teacher, dissatisfied with the approach used in her composition classes and with its results, turned to the Outward Bound concepts of the German physician and schoolmaster, Kurt Hahn. These concepts include a belief in the value of creating adversity in order to overcome it, a belief that important things happen to people who are…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making Skills
Download full textRubin, Rochelle L.; Norman, John T. – 1989
Previous research has shown a relationship between formal reasoning ability and science process skill attainment. It has been hypothesized that an increased emphasis on teaching process skills might enhance the formal thinking abilities of students. A variety of strategies have been proposed to better accomplish this task, most notable, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Junior High Schools
Wells, Gordon – 1986
Based on a longitudinal study of language development, this book charts the language development of 32 British children from shortly after their first birthdays to the end of their elementary education, and explores a number of questions related to this development. Chapter 1 describes the children and their families, chapter 2 discusses the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
