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Novelty and Educational Experience
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Ingman, Benjamin C. – Curriculum Journal, 2019
Using the method of educational criticism and connoisseurship, I interviewed and observed 41 participants of adventure education (AE) programmes. Through these efforts, novelty was revealed as a central quality of the experience. In this work, this quality is characterised as it manifest in AE with an eye towards the educational value of novelty.…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Experience, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Intellectual Development
Thoughts on Teaching Thinking.
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Nickerson, Raymond S. – Educational Leadership, 1981
A program to improve student ability to perform intellectually demanding tasks might reasonably focus on four types of objectives: abilities, methods, knowledge, and attitudes. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes, Secondary Education
Preparing the Learner for New Learning.
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Gagne, Robert M. – Theory into Practice, 1980
In order to ensure the effectiveness of instruction on a new topic, teachers must help students recall prior "prerequisite" learning. The type of learning to be recalled varies with the type of learning outcome expected. (RJG)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Instruction, Intellectual Development, Learning Processes
A Nudge Is Best: Helping Students through the Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development.
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Kloss, Robert J. – College Teaching, 1994
This article discusses William G. Perry's model of intellectual development, which posits that college students move through four phases of understanding their relationship to knowledge: dualism (knowledge as received truth), multiplicity (knowledge as opinion), relativism (knowledge as relativistic), and commitment in relativism. Specific…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, College Instruction
Knowing, Learning, and Writing: Patterns in Students' Understanding of Academic Work.
Kurfiss, Joanne Gainen – 1990
The paper describes four major patterns that emerge in studies of college student intellectual development. Quotations from students' writing about their epistemological beliefs and quotations from professors' writing concerning their courses and students are related to the four patterns. Characteristics of student writing associated with each…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Stages, Epistemology, Higher Education
Post-College Experiences and Epistemology.
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – Review of Higher Education, 1994
A longitudinal study of 101 college students investigated the ways in which their college and postcollege experiences fostered development of complexity in their assumptions about knowledge, by emphasizing independent functioning, collaboration, direct involvement in learning, and subjective decisionmaking. Results suggest these experiences be…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Freshmen, College Graduates, College Students