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Bouwmans, Matthijs; Béneker, Tine – London Review of Education, 2018
This article explores the usefulness of Maude's translation of Young's idea of powerful knowledge into geography education. Maude's classification of five types of powerful knowledge in geography education was used to analyse the written curriculum of the 'human and society' interdisciplinary domain in four schools in the Netherlands. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Knowledge Level, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Bamber, J.H.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Among Northern Irish secondary school students, science specialists performed better on tests of cognition and of knowledge in the arts and sciences, showed greater interest in theoretical and economic values, and had lower neuroticism and higher psychoticism scores than arts specialists. Arts specialists endorsed more aesthetic, social, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Humanities