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Harant, Martin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
Both contemporary naturalist and deconstructivist theories share the suspicion of invoking an emphatic subject in education while not being able to address the question of what education is for in a constructive and value-based way. However, while naturalist theory also focuses on the human mind and its evolutionary origins, deconstructivism is…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Role of Education, Educational Theories, Individual Development

Sturgis, Norman – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1971
Author believes that more general semanticists today have lost touch with the possibilities Korzybski opened to human beings, primarily that of liberating the self" from predetermined concepts and conditioned responses which hold mankind back from total freedom and fulfillment. Characterizing most semanticists as cerebral computers sans…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conditioning
Sonnier, Isadore L. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1976
Two extreme, mutually exclusive logic patterns are considered--"creative" and "constructive." It is proposed that most individuals display intermediate traits of the two modes, and that an understanding of these qualities can further the concept that individuals learn differently and have different instructional needs. (RW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Individual Development, Individual Differences
McCreary, John K. – Impr Coll Univ Teaching, 1970
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Sherman, Vivian – Viewpoints, 1977
Educational institutions are geared toward teaching skills in coping with what is regarded as the "real" world while overlooking the potential inherent in the individual person's emotional, intuitive, and spiritual nature. (JD)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Educational Psychology
Mogar, Robert E. – J Hum Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Individual Development

Gunnison, Hugh – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1982
Describes a specific fantasy technique. In several client examples, speculates on the technique's effectiveness and suggests that techniques such as the Fantasy Door Approach serve as correcting and connecting bridges between right and left hemisphere brain functioning. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship, Fantasy
Gladish, Stephen – Journal of College Placement, 1980
Based on a philosophy of self-direction, Urbana College's program teaches students to create their own futures. The seven levels and associated processes include: (1) growing; (2) thinking; (3) deciding; (4) self-marketing; (5) first job (risk); (6) lifetime career patterns (commitment); and (7) retirement. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students

Eccles, John C. – Teachers College Record, 1981
Human beings must realize the great unknowns in the material makeup and operation of the brain, in the relationship of brain to mind, in the creative imagination, and in the uniqueness of the psyche. The essential feature of the dualist-interaction theory is that mind and body are independent entities which somehow interact. (JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Nowak, Jens – 1981
Perspective transformation is a consciously achieved state in which the individual's perspective on life is transformed. The new perspective serves as a vantage point for life's actions and interactions, affecting the way life is lived. Three conditions are basic to achieving perspective transformation: (1) "feeling" experience, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Development, Individual Development
Hungerford, Curtiss R. – 1982
The Ehrhardt Training Seminar (E.S.T.) program is but one example of a self-help technique based on the premise that people will improve their personal lives and professional effectiveness to the extent that they can "break through the act" to discern the real self which is full of capacity and power when released from fear and constraint. Many…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Individual Development
Mitchell, John J. – 1992
Adolescent struggle is about the forces which shape the self and direct the search for identity. It examines the factors which incline young people toward self-centeredness, irrationality and faulty decision-making. Section 1 of the book deals with the adolescent self and two of the most important determinants of adolescent behavior: egocentrism…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes
Sherif, Carolyn Wood – 1980
A conception of the self system is needed for studying personally involving beliefs and attitudes, particularly to interpret research findings that show differences in cognitive processing and action as a function of varying levels of involvement. Different levels of involvement are associated with different structures of attitudes and beliefs, as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Beliefs
Oja, Sharon N. – 1979
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Deliberate Psychological Education Curriculum to promote the ego, moral, and conceptual development of inservice teachers enrolled in a five-week workshop, followed by a supervised fall quarter practicum. Significant differences were found between experimental and control groups…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Developmental Programs

Miller, Stuart – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Discusses the results of a content analysis of student journals in which the students applied concepts from their social psychology course to their daily social experiences. Reveals that students applied each of four cognitive operations (labeling, explaining, reducing consequences, and self-assessing) to various aspects of the self. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Course Content, Higher Education
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