Discusses how affective goals in science education can be identified. The discussion includes (1) the common definition of affective domain; (2) Krathwohl's taxonomy of affective objectives; (3) self-concept objectives; (4) evaluation of outcomes; and (5) developing behavioral objectives dealing with the affective domain. (HM)

Broken down into components of: affective domain - Indian values; cognitive domain - Indian knowledges; cognitive domain - non-Indian knowledges; and vocational goals - non-Indian skills; bicognitive education seeks to help the American Indian child think and react effectively within two worlds. (JC)

The need for investigating, developing, and implementing affective social studies education programs in the classroom is stressed in this paper. Some issues are raised about moral reasoning and values analysis and their relationship to what may be termed affective social studies education. Educators currently place a heavy emphasis on the…

The relationship between the psychological process of social-cognitive development of elementary children and social science education is reviewed. Social cognition is defined as the ways in which children come to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. For the most part, research findings have shown that a fundamental aspect of social…