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Stephanie Desiree Goldsmith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to view the influence that implementing growth mindset could have on a private preparatory school and the students' academic achievements. Qualitative methodology was used to investigate the influence of growth mindset could have on student learning in a private preparatory school. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Administrators
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Barney, Lee S.; Maughan, Bryan D. – Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 2015
Students learn best when teachers get out of the way. Unfortunately, university classrooms continue to be intensely teacher-centric, are driven by the teacher's agenda and calendar, and embrace simple models rather than complex alternatives. These simple types of learning environments frustrate students' development of the risk-­taking and choice…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Risk
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Taylor, Marilyn – Studies in Higher Education, 1986
A developmental process consisting of four phases that emerged from graduate students' reports of their experiences in a course promoting self-direction is outlined and compared with research on similar processes in other groups. (MSE)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Independent Study
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Campbell, Linda – Holistic Education Review, 1988
Recent psychological and educational research suggests that, in order to tap the mind's potential, people must employ information processing which uses both hemispheres of the brain, positively engage feelings in learning, and provide a rich and loving environment. Examines learning experiences which encourage success and presents the Integrative…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Holistic Approach, Individual Development
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Perkinson, Henry J. – ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 1980
Considers the way people create knowledge, the way personal knowledge grows, and the types of educative environments that are supportive to students' efforts to improve their knowledge. (GT)
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Wagschal, Peter H. – Sch Soc, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Compulsory Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Washington, DC. – 1978
The guidebook is designed to help school districts plan humanistic education programs. Humanistic education is defined as a commitment to education and practice in which the teaching/learning process emphasizes the individual's freedom, value, dignity, and integrity. Humanistic education aims to develop the learner's potentials, help students to…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education