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Peer reviewedBrown, Stanley B.; Brown, L. Barbara – School Science and Mathematics, 1971
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Instruction, Intermediate Grades
Hagen, Owen A.; Stansberry, Steve T. – Soc Educ, 1969
From the Series "Social Studies Education: The Elementary School -- Focus on Inquiry.
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Inquiry, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedBarnes, Donald L. – Teacher Educator, 1975
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Discovery Learning
Download full textTinsley, Drew C.; And Others – 1970
This study investigates the cognitive nature of teacher-pupil questions in "process oriented" and "content oriented" secondary social studies programs. Subjects were five classes selected from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as process-oriented; five from a program viewed by both teachers and pupils as content…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes
Whitin, Phyllis; Whitin, David J. – 1997
This book describes inquiry learning during a year-long classroom exploration with 4th graders, which began with setting up a bird feeder and a journal for students to record observations. The authors argue that schools have been organized to make things easy for learners, shielding them from the messiness, ambiguity, and change of intellectual…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation, Curiosity
Gross, 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
Robinson, W. P., Ed. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
Reviews research about child development, curiosity, questioning, boredom, and social class differences, and the relationships between attitudes and capacities of the learners and the content and complexities of the materials. (See TM 504 595 for availability). (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Failure, Apathy, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
